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1. Novel approach for evaluating detector-related uncertainties in a LArTPC using MicroBooNE data

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P. Abratenko, R. An, J. Anthony, L. Arellano, J. Asaadi, A. Ashkenazi, S. Balasubramanian, B. Baller, C. Barnes, G. Barr, V. Basque, L. Bathe-Peters, O. Benevides Rodrigues, S. Berkman, A. Bhanderi, A. Bhat, M. Bishai, A. Blake, T. Bolton, J. Y. Book, L. Camilleri, D. Caratelli, I. Caro Terrazas, F. Cavanna, G. Cerati, Y. Chen, D. Cianci, J. M. Conrad, M. Convery, L. Cooper-Troendle, J. I. Crespo-Anadón, M. Del Tutto, S. R. Dennis, P. Detje, A. Devitt, R. Diurba, R. Dorrill, K. Duffy, S. Dytman, B. Eberly, A. Ereditato, J. J. Evans, R. Fine, G. A. Fiorentini Aguirre, R. S. Fitzpatrick, B. T. Fleming, N. Foppiani, D. Franco, A. P. Furmanski, D. Garcia-Gamez, S. Gardiner, G. Ge, S. Gollapinni, O. Goodwin, E. Gramellini, P. Green, H. Greenlee, W. Gu, R. Guenette, P. Guzowski, L. Hagaman, O. Hen, C. Hilgenberg, G. A. Horton-Smith, A. Hourlier, R. Itay, C. James, X. Ji, L. Jiang, J. H. Jo, R. A. Johnson, Y.-J. Jwa, D. Kalra, N. Kamp, N. Kaneshige, G. Karagiorgi, W. Ketchum, M. Kirby, T. Kobilarcik, I. Kreslo, I. Lepetic, K. Li, Y. Li, K. Lin, B. R. Littlejohn, W. C. Louis, X. Luo, K. Manivannan, C. Mariani, D. Marsden, J. Marshall, D. A. Martinez Caicedo, K. Mason, A. Mastbaum, N. McConkey, V. Meddage, T. Mettler, K. Miller, J. Mills, K. Mistry, A. Mogan, T. Mohayai, J. Moon, M. Mooney, A. F. Moor, C. D. Moore, L. Mora Lepin, J. Mousseau, M. Murphy, D. Naples, A. Navrer-Agasson, M. Nebot-Guinot, R. K. Neely, D. A. Newmark, J. Nowak, M. Nunes, O. Palamara, V. Paolone, A. Papadopoulou, V. Papavassiliou, S. F. Pate, N. Patel, A. Paudel, Z. Pavlovic, E. Piasetzky, I. D. Ponce-Pinto, S. Prince, X. Qian, J. L. Raaf, V. Radeka, A. Rafique, M. Reggiani-Guzzo, L. Ren, L. C. J. Rice, L. Rochester, J. Rodriguez Rondon, M. Rosenberg, M. Ross-Lonergan, G. Scanavini, D. W. Schmitz, A. Schukraft, W. Seligman, M. H. Shaevitz, R. Sharankova, J. Shi, J. Sinclair, A. Smith, E. L. Snider, M. Soderberg, S. Söldner-Rembold, P. Spentzouris, J. Spitz, M. Stancari, J. St. John, T. Strauss, K. Sutton, S. Sword-Fehlberg, A. M. Szelc, W. Tang, K. Terao, C. Thorpe, D. Totani, M. Toups, Y.-T. Tsai, M. A. Uchida, T. Usher, W. Van De Pontseele, B. Viren, M. Weber, H. Wei, Z. Williams, S. Wolbers, T. Wongjirad, M. Wospakrik, K. Wresilo, N. Wright, W. Wu, E. Yandel, T. Yang, G. Yarbrough, L. E. Yates, H. W. Yu, G. P. Zeller, J. Zennamo, C. Zhang, and MicroBooNE Collaboration

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Astrophysics, QB460-466, Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity, QC770-798
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Abstract Primary challenges for current and future precision neutrino experiments using liquid argon time projection chambers (LArTPCs) include understanding detector effects and quantifying the associated systematic uncertainties. This paper presents a novel technique for assessing and propagating LArTPC detector-related systematic uncertainties. The technique makes modifications to simulation waveforms based on a parameterization of observed differences in ionization signals from the TPC between data and simulation, while remaining insensitive to the details of the detector model. The modifications are then used to quantify the systematic differences in low- and high-level reconstructed quantities. This approach could be applied to future LArTPC detectors, such as those used in SBN and DUNE.

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2022
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2. Calorimetric classification of track-like signatures in liquid argon TPCs using MicroBooNE data

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The MicroBooNE collaboration, P. Abratenko, R. An, J. Anthony, J. Asaadi, A. Ashkenazi, S. Balasubramanian, B. Baller, C. Barnes, G. Barr, V. Basque, L. Bathe-Peters, O. Benevides Rodrigues, S. Berkman, A. Bhanderi, A. Bhat, M. Bishai, A. Blake, T. Bolton, L. Camilleri, D. Caratelli, I. Caro Terrazas, R. Castillo Fernandez, F. Cavanna, G. Cerati, Y. Chen, E. Church, D. Cianci, J. M. Conrad, M. Convery, L. Cooper-Troendle, J. I. Crespo-Anadón, M. Del Tutto, S. R. Dennis, D. Devitt, R. Diurba, R. Dorrill, K. Duffy, S. Dytman, B. Eberly, A. Ereditato, J. J. Evans, R. Fine, G. A. Fiorentini Aguirre, R. S. Fitzpatrick, B. T. Fleming, N. Foppiani, D. Franco, A. P. Furmanski, D. Garcia-Gamez, S. Gardiner, G. Ge, S. Gollapinni, O. Goodwin, E. Gramellini, P. Green, H. Greenlee, W. Gu, R. Guenette, P. Guzowski, L. Hagaman, E. Hall, P. Hamilton, O. Hen, G. A. Horton-Smith, A. Hourlier, R. Itay, C. James, X. Ji, L. Jiang, J. H. Jo, R. A. Johnson, Y.-J. Jwa, N. Kamp, N. Kaneshige, G. Karagiorgi, W. Ketchum, M. Kirby, T. Kobilarcik, I. Kreslo, R. LaZur, I. Lepetic, K. Li, Y. Li, K. Lin, B. R. Littlejohn, W. C. Louis, X. Luo, K. Manivannan, C. Mariani, D. Marsden, J. Marshall, D. A. Martinez Caicedo, K. Mason, A. Mastbaum, N. McConkey, V. Meddage, T. Mettler, K. Miller, J. Mills, K. Mistry, A. Mogan, T. Mohayai, J. Moon, M. Mooney, A. F. Moor, C. D. Moore, L. Mora Lepin, J. Mousseau, M. Murphy, D. Naples, A. Navrer-Agasson, R. K. Neely, J. Nowak, M. Nunes, O. Palamara, V. Paolone, A. Papadopoulou, V. Papavassiliou, S. F. Pate, A. Paudel, Z. Pavlovic, E. Piasetzky, I. D. Ponce-Pinto, S. Prince, X. Qian, J. L. Raaf, V. Radeka, A. Rafique, M. Reggiani-Guzzo, L. Ren, L. C. J. Rice, L. Rochester, J. Rodriguez Rondon, H. E. Rogers, M. Rosenberg, M. Ross-Lonergan, G. Scanavini, D. W. Schmitz, A. Schukraft, W. Seligman, M. H. Shaevitz, R. Sharankova, J. Sinclair, A. Smith, E. L. Snider, M. Soderberg, S. Söldner-Rembold, P. Spentzouris, J. Spitz, M. Stancari, J. St. John, T. Strauss, K. Sutton, S. Sword-Fehlberg, A. M. Szelc, N. Tagg, W. Tang, K. Terao, C. Thorpe, D. Totani, M. Toups, Y.-T. Tsai, M. A. Uchida, T. Usher, W. Van De Pontseele, B. Viren, M. Weber, H. Wei, Z. Williams, S. Wolbers, T. Wongjirad, M. Wospakrik, N. Wright, W. Wu, E. Yandel, T. Yang, G. Yarbrough, L. E. Yates, G. P. Zeller, J. Zennamo, and C. Zhang

Subjects
Other experiments, Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity, QC770-798
Abstract

Abstract The MicroBooNE liquid argon time projection chamber located at Fermilab is a neutrino experiment dedicated to the study of short-baseline oscillations, the measurements of neutrino cross sections in liquid argon, and to the research and development of this novel detector technology. Accurate and precise measurements of calorimetry are essential to the event reconstruction and are achieved by leveraging the TPC to measure deposited energy per unit length along the particle trajectory, with mm resolution. We describe the non-uniform calorimetric reconstruction performance in the detector, showing dependence on the angle of the particle trajectory. Such non-uniform reconstruction directly affects the performance of the particle identification algorithms which infer particle type from calorimetric measurements. This work presents a new particle identification method which accounts for and effectively addresses such non-uniformity. The newly developed method shows improved performance compared to previous algorithms, illustrated by a 93.7% proton selection efficiency and a 10% muon mis-identification rate, with a fairly loose selection of tracks performed on beam data. The performance is further demonstrated by identifying exclusive final states in ν μ CC interactions. While developed using MicroBooNE data and simulation, this method is easily applicable to future LArTPC experiments, such as SBND, ICARUS, and DUNE.

Published
2021
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3. Rejecting cosmic background for exclusive charged current quasi elastic neutrino interaction studies with Liquid Argon TPCs; a case study with the MicroBooNE detector

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C. Adams, M. Alrashed, R. An, J. Anthony, J. Asaadi, A. Ashkenazi, M. Auger, S. Balasubramanian, B. Baller, C. Barnes, G. Barr, M. Bass, F. Bay, A. Bhat, K. Bhattacharya, M. Bishai, A. Blake, T. Bolton, L. Camilleri, D. Caratelli, I. Caro Terrazas, R. Carr, R. Castillo Fernandez, F. Cavanna, G. Cerati, Y. Chen, E. Church, D. Cianci, E. O. Cohen, G. H. Collin, J. M. Conrad, M. Convery, L. Cooper-Troendle, J. I. Crespo-Anadón, M. Del Tutto, D. Devitt, A. Diaz, K. Duffy, S. Dytman, B. Eberly, A. Ereditato, L. Escudero Sanchez, J. Esquivel, J. J Evans, A. A. Fadeeva, R. S. Fitzpatrick, B. T. Fleming, D. Franco, A. P. Furmanski, D. Garcia-Gamez, V. Genty, D. Goeldi, S. Gollapinni, O. Goodwin, E. Gramellini, H. Greenlee, R. Grosso, R. Guenette, P. Guzowski, A. Hackenburg, P. Hamilton, O. Hen, J. Hewes, C. Hill, G. A. Horton-Smith, A. Hourlier, E.-C. Huang, C. James, J. Jan de Vries, X. Ji, L. Jiang, R. A. Johnson, J. Joshi, H. Jostlein, Y.-J. Jwa, G. Karagiorgi, W. Ketchum, B. Kirby, M. Kirby, T. Kobilarcik, I. Kreslo, I. Lepetic, Y. Li, A. Lister, B. R. Littlejohn, S. Lockwitz, D. Lorca, W. C. Louis, M. Luethi, B. Lundberg, X. Luo, A. Marchionni, S. Marcocci, C. Mariani, J. Marshall, J. Martin-Albo, D. A. Martinez Caicedo, A. Mastbaum, V. Meddage, T. Mettler, K. Mistry, A. Mogan, J. Moon, M. Mooney, C. D. Moore, J. Mousseau, M. Murphy, R. Murrells, D. Naples, P. Nienaber, J. Nowak, O. Palamara, V. Pandey, V. Paolone, A. Papadopoulou, V. Papavassiliou, S. F. Pate, Z. Pavlovic, E. Piasetzky, D. Porzio, G. Pulliam, X. Qian, J. L. Raaf, A. Rafique, L. Ren, L. Rochester, M. Ross-Lonergan, C. Rudolf von Rohr, B. Russell, G. Scanavini, D. W. Schmitz, A. Schukraft, W. Seligman, M. H. Shaevitz, R. Sharankova, J. Sinclair, A. Smith, E. L. Snider, M. Soderberg, S. Söldner-Rembold, S. R. Soleti, P. Spentzouris, J. Spitz, J. St. John, T. Strauss, K. Sutton, S. Sword-Fehlberg, A. M. Szelc, N. Tagg, W. Tang, K. Terao, M. Thomson, R. T. Thornton, M. Toups, Y.-T. Tsai, S. Tufanli, T. Usher, W. Van De Pontseele, R. G. Van de Water, B. Viren, M. Weber, H. Wei, D. A. Wickremasinghe, K. Wierman, Z. Williams, S. Wolbers, T. Wongjirad, K. Woodruff, T. Yang, G. Yarbrough, L. E. Yates, G. P. Zeller, J. Zennamo, and C. Zhang

Subjects
Astrophysics, QB460-466, Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity, QC770-798
Abstract

Abstract Cosmic ray (CR) interactions can be a challenging source of background for neutrino oscillation and cross-section measurements in surface detectors. We present methods for CR rejection in measurements of charged-current quasielastic-like (CCQE-like) neutrino interactions, with a muon and a proton in the final state, measured using liquid argon time projection chambers (LArTPCs). Using a sample of cosmic data collected with the MicroBooNE detector, mixed with simulated neutrino scattering events, a set of event selection criteria is developed that produces an event sample with minimal contribution from CR background. Depending on the selection criteria used a purity between 50 and 80% can be achieved with a signal selection efficiency between 50 and 25%, with higher purity coming at the expense of lower efficiency. While using a specific dataset and selection criteria values optimized for the MicroBooNE detector, the concepts presented here are generic and can be adapted for various studies of exclusive $$\nu _{\mu }$$ νμ CCQE interactions in LArTPCs.

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2019
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4. Comparison of $${\varvec{\nu }}_{\varvec{\mu }}-$$ νμ- Ar multiplicity distributions observed by MicroBooNE to GENIE model predictions

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C. Adams, R. An, J. Anthony, J. Asaadi, M. Auger, S. Balasubramanian, B. Baller, C. Barnes, G. Barr, M. Bass, F. Bay, A. Bhat, K. Bhattacharya, M. Bishai, A. Blake, T. Bolton, L. Camilleri, D. Caratelli, R. Castillo Fernandez, F. Cavanna, G. Cerati, H. Chen, Y. Chen, E. Church, D. Cianci, E. Cohen, G. H. Collin, J. M. Conrad, M. Convery, L. Cooper-Troendle, J. I. Crespo-Anadón, M. Del Tutto, D. Devitt, A. Diaz, S. Dytman, B. Eberly, A. Ereditato, L. Escudero Sanchez, J. Esquivel, J. J. Evans, A. A. Fadeeva, B. T. Fleming, W. Foreman, A. P. Furmanski, D. Garcia-Gamez, G. T. Garvey, V. Genty, D. Goeldi, S. Gollapinni, E. Gramellini, H. Greenlee, R. Grosso, R. Guenette, P. Guzowski, A. Hackenburg, P. Hamilton, O. Hen, J. Hewes, C. Hill, J. Ho, G. A. Horton-Smith, A. Hourlier, E.-C. Huang, C. James, J. Jan de Vries, L. Jiang, R. A. Johnson, J. Joshi, H. Jostlein, Y.-J. Jwa, D. Kaleko, G. Karagiorgi, W. Ketchum, B. Kirby, M. Kirby, T. Kobilarcik, I. Kreslo, Y. Li, A. Lister, B. R. Littlejohn, S. Lockwitz, D. Lorca, W. C. Louis, M. Luethi, B. Lundberg, X. Luo, A. Marchionni, S. Marcocci, C. Mariani, J. Marshall, D. A. Martinez Caicedo, A. Mastbaum, V. Meddage, T. Mettler, T. Miceli, G. B. Mills, A. Mogan, J. Moon, M. Mooney, C. D. Moore, J. Mousseau, M. Murphy, R. Murrells, D. Naples, P. Nienaber, J. Nowak, O. Palamara, V. Pandey, V. Paolone, A. Papadopoulou, V. Papavassiliou, S. F. Pate, Z. Pavlovic, E. Piasetzky, D. Porzio, G. Pulliam, X. Qian, J. L. Raaf, A. Rafique, L. Rochester, M. Ross-Lonergan, C. Rudolf von Rohr, B. Russell, D. W. Schmitz, A. Schukraft, W. Seligman, M. H. Shaevitz, J. Sinclair, A. Smith, E. L. Snider, M. Soderberg, S. Söldner-Rembold, S. R. Soleti, P. Spentzouris, J. Spitz, J. St. John, T. Strauss, K. Sutton, S. Sword-Fehlberg, A. M. Szelc, N. Tagg, W. Tang, K. Terao, M. Thomson, M. Toups, Y.-T. Tsai, S. Tufanli, T. Usher, W. Van De Pontseele, R. G. Van de Water, B. Viren, M. Weber, H. Wei, D. A. Wickremasinghe, K. Wierman, Z. Williams, S. Wolbers, T. Wongjirad, K. Woodruff, T. Yang, G. Yarbrough, L. E. Yates, G. P. Zeller, J. Zennamo, and C. Zhang

Subjects
Astrophysics, QB460-466, Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity, QC770-798
Abstract

Abstract We measure a large set of observables in inclusive charged current muon neutrino scattering on argon with the MicroBooNE liquid argon time projection chamber operating at Fermilab. We evaluate three neutrino interaction models based on the widely used GENIE event generator using these observables. The measurement uses a data set consisting of neutrino interactions with a final state muon candidate fully contained within the MicroBooNE detector. These data were collected in 2016 with the Fermilab Booster Neutrino Beam, which has an average neutrino energy of $$800~\hbox {MeV}$$ 800MeV , using an exposure corresponding to $$ 5.0\times 10^{19}$$ 5.0×1019 protons-on-target. The analysis employs fully automatic event selection and charged particle track reconstruction and uses a data-driven technique to separate neutrino interactions from cosmic ray background events. We find that GENIE models consistently describe the shapes of a large number of kinematic distributions for fixed observed multiplicity.

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2019
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5. Search for neutrino-induced neutral current Δ radiative decay in MicroBooNE and a first test of the MiniBooNE low energy excess under a single-photon hypothesis

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P, Abratenko, R, An, J, Anthony, L, Arellano, J, Asaadi, A, Ashkenazi, S, Balasubramanian, B, Baller, C, Barnes, G, Barr, V, Basque, L, Bathe-Peters, O, Benevides Rodrigues, S, Berkman, A, Bhanderi, A, Bhat, M, Bishai, A, Blake, T, Bolton, J Y, Book, L, Camilleri, D, Caratelli, I, Caro Terrazas, R, Castillo Fernandez, F, Cavanna, G, Cerati, Y, Chen, D, Cianci, J M, Conrad, M, Convery, L, Cooper-Troendle, J I, Crespo-Anadón, M, Del Tutto, S R, Dennis, P, Detje, A, Devitt, R, Diurba, R, Dorrill, K, Duffy, S, Dytman, B, Eberly, A, Ereditato, J J, Evans, R, Fine, G A, Fiorentini Aguirre, R S, Fitzpatrick, B T, Fleming, N, Foppiani, D, Franco, A P, Furmanski, D, Garcia-Gamez, S, Gardiner, G, Ge, S, Gollapinni, O, Goodwin, E, Gramellini, P, Green, H, Greenlee, W, Gu, R, Guenette, P, Guzowski, L, Hagaman, O, Hen, C, Hilgenberg, G A, Horton-Smith, A, Hourlier, R, Itay, C, James, X, Ji, L, Jiang, J H, Jo, R A, Johnson, Y-J, Jwa, D, Kalra, N, Kamp, N, Kaneshige, G, Karagiorgi, W, Ketchum, M, Kirby, T, Kobilarcik, I, Kreslo, R, LaZur, I, Lepetic, K, Li, Y, Li, K, Lin, B R, Littlejohn, W C, Louis, X, Luo, K, Manivannan, C, Mariani, D, Marsden, J, Marshall, D A, Martinez Caicedo, K, Mason, A, Mastbaum, N, McConkey, V, Meddage, T, Mettler, K, Miller, J, Mills, K, Mistry, A, Mogan, T, Mohayai, J, Moon, M, Mooney, A F, Moor, C D, Moore, L, Mora Lepin, J, Mousseau, M, Murphy, R, Murrells, D, Naples, A, Navrer-Agasson, M, Nebot-Guinot, R K, Neely, D A, Newmark, J, Nowak, M, Nunes, O, Palamara, V, Paolone, A, Papadopoulou, V, Papavassiliou, S F, Pate, N, Patel, A, Paudel, Z, Pavlovic, E, Piasetzky, I D, Ponce-Pinto, S, Prince, X, Qian, J L, Raaf, V, Radeka, A, Rafique, M, Reggiani-Guzzo, L, Ren, L C J, Rice, L, Rochester, J, Rodriguez Rondon, M, Rosenberg, M, Ross-Lonergan, G, Scanavini, D W, Schmitz, A, Schukraft, W, Seligman, M H, Shaevitz, R, Sharankova, J, Shi, J, Sinclair, A, Smith, E L, Snider, M, Soderberg, S, Söldner-Rembold, P, Spentzouris, J, Spitz, M, Stancari, J St, John, T, Strauss, K, Sutton, S, Sword-Fehlberg, A M, Szelc, W, Tang, K, Terao, C, Thorpe, D, Totani, M, Toups, Y-T, Tsai, M A, Uchida, T, Usher, W, Van De Pontseele, B, Viren, M, Weber, H, Wei, Z, Williams, S, Wolbers, T, Wongjirad, M, Wospakrik, K, Wresilo, N, Wright, W, Wu, E, Yandel, T, Yang, G, Yarbrough, L E, Yates, H W, Yu, G P, Zeller, J, Zennamo, and C, Zhang

Abstract

We report results from a search for neutrino-induced neutral current (NC) resonant Δ(1232) baryon production followed by Δ radiative decay, with a ⟨0.8⟩ GeV neutrino beam. Data corresponding to MicroBooNE’s first three years of operations (6.80×1020 protons on target) are used to select single-photon events with one or zero protons and without charged leptons in the final state (1γ1p and 1γ0p, respectively). The background is constrained via an in situ high-purity measurement of NC π0 events, made possible via dedicated 2γ1p and 2γ0p selections. A total of 16 and 153 events are observed for the 1γ1p and 1γ0p selections, respectively, compared to a constrained background prediction of 20.5±3.65(syst) and 145.1±13.8(syst) events. The data lead to a bound on an anomalous enhancement of the normalization of NC Δ radiative decay of less than 2.3 times the predicted nominal rate for this process at the 90% confidence level (C.L.). The measurement disfavors a candidate photon interpretation of the MiniBooNE low-energy excess as a factor of 3.18 times the nominal NC Δ radiative decay rate at the 94.8% C.L., in favor of the nominal prediction, and represents a greater than 50-fold improvement over the world’s best limit on single-photon production in NC interactions in the sub-GeV neutrino energy range.

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2022
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6. Search for an Excess of Electron Neutrino Interactions in MicroBooNE Using Multiple Final-State Topologies

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P, Abratenko, R, An, J, Anthony, L, Arellano, J, Asaadi, A, Ashkenazi, S, Balasubramanian, B, Baller, C, Barnes, G, Barr, V, Basque, L, Bathe-Peters, O, Benevides Rodrigues, S, Berkman, A, Bhanderi, A, Bhat, M, Bishai, A, Blake, T, Bolton, J Y, Book, L, Camilleri, D, Caratelli, I, Caro Terrazas, F, Cavanna, G, Cerati, Y, Chen, D, Cianci, G H, Collin, J M, Conrad, M, Convery, L, Cooper-Troendle, J I, Crespo-Anadón, M, Del Tutto, S R, Dennis, P, Detje, A, Devitt, R, Diurba, R, Dorrill, K, Duffy, S, Dytman, B, Eberly, A, Ereditato, L, Escudero Sanchez, J J, Evans, R, Fine, G A, Fiorentini Aguirre, R S, Fitzpatrick, B T, Fleming, N, Foppiani, D, Franco, A P, Furmanski, D, Garcia-Gamez, S, Gardiner, G, Ge, V, Genty, S, Gollapinni, O, Goodwin, E, Gramellini, P, Green, H, Greenlee, W, Gu, R, Guenette, P, Guzowski, L, Hagaman, O, Hen, C, Hilgenberg, G A, Horton-Smith, A, Hourlier, R, Itay, C, James, X, Ji, L, Jiang, J H, Jo, R A, Johnson, Y-J, Jwa, D, Kaleko, D, Kalra, N, Kamp, N, Kaneshige, G, Karagiorgi, W, Ketchum, M, Kirby, T, Kobilarcik, I, Kreslo, R, LaZur, I, Lepetic, K, Li, Y, Li, K, Lin, A, Lister, B R, Littlejohn, W C, Louis, X, Luo, K, Manivannan, C, Mariani, D, Marsden, J, Marshall, D A, Martinez Caicedo, K, Mason, A, Mastbaum, N, McConkey, V, Meddage, T, Mettler, K, Miller, J, Mills, K, Mistry, A, Mogan, T, Mohayai, J, Moon, M, Mooney, A F, Moor, C D, Moore, L, Mora Lepin, J, Mousseau, M, Murphy, D, Naples, A, Navrer-Agasson, M, Nebot-Guinot, R K, Neely, D A, Newmark, J, Nowak, M, Nunes, O, Palamara, V, Paolone, A, Papadopoulou, V, Papavassiliou, S F, Pate, N, Patel, A, Paudel, Z, Pavlovic, E, Piasetzky, I D, Ponce-Pinto, S, Prince, X, Qian, J L, Raaf, V, Radeka, A, Rafique, M, Reggiani-Guzzo, L, Ren, L C J, Rice, L, Rochester, J, Rodriguez Rondon, M, Rosenberg, M, Ross-Lonergan, B, Russell, G, Scanavini, D W, Schmitz, A, Schukraft, W, Seligman, M H, Shaevitz, R, Sharankova, J, Shi, J, Sinclair, A, Smith, E L, Snider, M, Soderberg, S, Söldner-Rembold, S R, Soleti, P, Spentzouris, J, Spitz, M, Stancari, J St, John, T, Strauss, K, Sutton, S, Sword-Fehlberg, A M, Szelc, W, Tang, K, Terao, M, Thomson, C, Thorpe, D, Totani, M, Toups, Y-T, Tsai, M A, Uchida, T, Usher, W, Van De Pontseele, B, Viren, M, Weber, H, Wei, Z, Williams, S, Wolbers, T, Wongjirad, M, Wospakrik, K, Wresilo, N, Wright, W, Wu, E, Yandel, T, Yang, G, Yarbrough, L E, Yates, H W, Yu, G P, Zeller, J, Zennamo, C, Zhang, and MicroBooNE Collaboration

Subjects
Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, 530 Physics, Physics::Accelerator Physics, General Physics and Astronomy, High Energy Physics::Experiment
Abstract

We present a measurement of νe interactions from the Fermilab Booster Neutrino Beam using the MicroBooNE liquid argon time projection chamber to address the nature of the excess of low energy interactions observed by the MiniBooNE Collaboration. Three independent νe searches are performed across multiple single electron final states, including an exclusive search for two-body scattering events with a single proton, a semi-inclusive search for pionless events, and a fully inclusive search for events containing all hadronic final states.With differing signal topologies, statistics, backgrounds, reconstruction algorithms, and analysis approaches, the results are found to be either consistent with or modestly lower than the nominal νe rate expectations from the Booster Neutrino Beam and no excess of νe events is observed., United States Department of Energy (DOE) DE-AC02-07CH11359 National Science Foundation (NSF), Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), European Commission, UK Research & Innovation (UKRI), Science & Technology Facilities Council (STFC), Royal Society of London

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2022
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7. Wire-cell 3D pattern recognition techniques for neutrino event reconstruction in large LArTPCs: algorithm description and quantitative evaluation with MicroBooNE simulation

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P. Abratenko, R. An, J. Anthony, L. Arellano, J. Asaadi, A. Ashkenazi, S. Balasubramanian, B. Baller, C. Barnes, G. Barr, V. Basque, L. Bathe-Peters, O. Benevides Rodrigues, S. Berkman, A. Bhanderi, A. Bhat, M. Bishai, A. Blake, T. Bolton, J.Y. Book, L. Camilleri, D. Caratelli, I. Caro Terrazas, R. Castillo Fernandez, F. Cavanna, G. Cerati, Y. Chen, D. Cianci, J.M. Conrad, M. Convery, L. Cooper-Troendle, J.I. Crespo-Anadón, M. Del Tutto, S.R. Dennis, P. Detje, A. Devitt, R. Diurba, R. Dorrill, K. Duffy, S. Dytman, B. Eberly, A. Ereditato, J.J. Evans, R. Fine, G.A. Fiorentini Aguirre, R.S. Fitzpatrick, B.T. Fleming, N. Foppiani, D. Franco, A.P. Furmanski, D. Garcia-Gamez, S. Gardiner, G. Ge, S. Gollapinni, O. Goodwin, E. Gramellini, P. Green, H. Greenlee, W. Gu, R. Guenette, P. Guzowski, L. Hagaman, O. Hen, C. Hilgenberg, G.A. Horton-Smith, A. Hourlier, R. Itay, C. James, X. Ji, L. Jiang, J.H. Jo, R.A. Johnson, Y.-J. Jwa, D. Kalra, N. Kamp, N. Kaneshige, G. Karagiorgi, W. Ketchum, M. Kirby, T. Kobilarcik, I. Kreslo, R. LaZur, I. Lepetic, K. Li, Y. Li, K. Lin, B.R. Littlejohn, W.C. Louis, X. Luo, K. Manivannan, C. Mariani, D. Marsden, J. Marshall, D.A. Martinez Caicedo, K. Mason, A. Mastbaum, N. McConkey, V. Meddage, T. Mettler, K. Miller, J. Mills, K. Mistry, A. Mogan, T. Mohayai, J. Moon, M. Mooney, A.F. Moor, C.D. Moore, L. Mora Lepin, J. Mousseau, M. Murphy, D. Naples, A. Navrer-Agasson, M. Nebot-Guinot, R.K. Neely, D.A. Newmark, J. Nowak, M. Nunes, O. Palamara, V. Paolone, A. Papadopoulou, V. Papavassiliou, S.F. Pate, N. Patel, A. Paudel, Z. Pavlovic, E. Piasetzky, I.D. Ponce-Pinto, S. Prince, X. Qian, J.L. Raaf, V. Radeka, A. Rafique, M. Reggiani-Guzzo, L. Ren, L.C.J. Rice, L. Rochester, J. Rodriguez Rondon, M. Rosenberg, M. Ross-Lonergan, G. Scanavini, D.W. Schmitz, A. Schukraft, W. Seligman, M.H. Shaevitz, R. Sharankova, J. Shi, J. Sinclair, A. Smith, E.L. Snider, M. Soderberg, S. Söldner-Rembold, P. Spentzouris, J. Spitz, M. Stancari, J. St. John, T. Strauss, K. Sutton, S. Sword-Fehlberg, A.M. Szelc, N. Tagg, W. Tang, K. Terao, C. Thorpe, D. Totani, M. Toups, Y.-T. Tsai, M.A. Uchida, T. Usher, W. Van De Pontseele, B. Viren, M. Weber, H. Wei, Z. Williams, S. Wolbers, T. Wongjirad, M. Wospakrik, K. Wresilo, N. Wright, W. Wu, E. Yandel, T. Yang, G. Yarbrough, L.E. Yates, H.W. Yu, G.P. Zeller, J. Zennamo, and C. Zhang

Subjects
High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, 530 Physics, FOS: Physical sciences, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), Instrumentation, Mathematical Physics, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract

Wire-Cell is a 3D event reconstruction package for liquid argon time projection chambers. Through geometry, time, and drifted charge from multiple readout wire planes, 3D space points with associated charge are reconstructed prior to the pattern recognition stage. Pattern recognition techniques, including track trajectory and dQ/dx (ionization charge per unit length) fitting, 3D neutrino vertex fitting, track and shower separation, particle-level clustering, and particle identification are then applied on these 3D space points as well as the original 2D projection measurements. A deep neural network is developed to enhance the reconstruction of the neutrino interaction vertex. Compared to traditional algorithms, the deep neural network boosts the vertex efficiency by a relative 30% for charged-current νe interactions. This pattern recognition achieves 80–90% reconstruction efficiencies for primary leptons, after a 65.8% (72.9%) vertex efficiency for charged-current νe (νμ) interactions. Based on the resulting reconstructed particles and their kinematics, we also achieve 15-20% energy reconstruction resolutions for charged-current neutrino interactions.

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2022
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8. Electromagnetic Shower Reconstruction and Energy Validation with Michel Electrons and $\pi^0$ Samples for the Deep-Learning-Based Analyses in MicroBooNE

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P. Abratenko, R. An, J. Anthony, L. Arellano, J. Asaadi, A. Ashkenazi, S. Balasubramanian, B. Baller, C. Barnes, G. Barr, V. Basque, L. Bathe-Peters, O. Benevides Rodrigues, S. Berkman, A. Bhanderi, A. Bhat, M. Bishai, A. Blake, T. Bolton, J.Y. Book, L. Camilleri, D. Caratelli, I. Caro Terrazas, R. Castillo Fernandez, F. Cavanna, G. Cerati, Y. Chen, D. Cianci, J.M. Conrad, M. Convery, L. Cooper-Troendle, J.I. Crespo-Anadón, M. Del Tutto, S.R. Dennis, P. Detje, A. Devitt, R. Diurba, R. Dorrill, K. Duffy, S. Dytman, B. Eberly, A. Ereditato, J.J. Evans, R. Fine, G.A. Fiorentini Aguirre, R.S. Fitzpatrick, B.T. Fleming, N. Foppiani, D. Franco, A.P. Furmanski, D. Garcia-Gamez, S. Gardiner, G. Ge, S. Gollapinni, O. Goodwin, E. Gramellini, P. Green, H. Greenlee, W. Gu, R. Guenette, P. Guzowski, L. Hagaman, O. Hen, C. Hilgenberg, G.A. Horton-Smith, A. Hourlier, R. Itay, C. James, X. Ji, L. Jiang, J.H. Jo, R.A. Johnson, Y.-J. Jwa, D. Kalra, N. Kamp, N. Kaneshige, G. Karagiorgi, W. Ketchum, M. Kirby, T. Kobilarcik, I. Kreslo, R. LaZur, I. Lepetic, K. Li, Y. Li, K. Lin, B.R. Littlejohn, W.C. Louis, X. Luo, K. Manivannan, C. Mariani, D. Marsden, J. Marshall, D.A. Martinez Caicedo, K. Mason, A. Mastbaum, N. McConkey, V. Meddage, T. Mettler, K. Miller, J. Mills, K. Mistry, A. Mogan, T. Mohayai, J. Moon, M. Mooney, A.F. Moor, C.D. Moore, L. Mora Lepin, J. Mousseau, M. Murphy, D. Naples, A. Navrer-Agasson, M. Nebot-Guinot, R.K. Neely, D.A. Newmark, J. Nowak, M. Nunes, O. Palamara, V. Paolone, A. Papadopoulou, V. Papavassiliou, S.F. Pate, N. Patel, A. Paudel, Z. Pavlovic, E. Piasetzky, I.D. Ponce-Pinto, S. Prince, X. Qian, J.L. Raaf, V. Radeka, A. Rafique, M. Reggiani-Guzzo, L. Ren, L.C.J. Rice, L. Rochester, J. Rodriguez Rondon, M. Rosenberg, M. Ross-Lonergan, G. Scanavini, D.W. Schmitz, A. Schukraft, W. Seligman, M.H. Shaevitz, R. Sharankova, J. Shi, J. Sinclair, A. Smith, E.L. Snider, M. Soderberg, S. Söldner-Rembold, P. Spentzouris, J. Spitz, M. Stancari, J. St., T. Strauss, K. Sutton, S. Sword-Fehlberg, A.M. Szelc, N. Tagg, W. Tang, K. Terao, C. Thorpe, D. Totani, M. Toups, Y.-T. Tsai, M.A. Uchida, T. Usher, W. Van De Pontseele, B. Viren, M. Weber, H. Wei, Z. Williams, S. Wolbers, T. Wongjirad, M. Wospakrik, K. Wresilo, N. Wright, W. Wu, E. Yandel, T. Yang, G. Yarbrough, L.E. Yates, H.W. Yu, G.P. Zeller, J. Zennamo, C. Zhang, and Collaboration, The MicroBooNE

Subjects
High Energy Physics::Experiment, Instrumentation, Mathematical Physics, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract

This article presents the reconstruction of the electromagnetic activity from electrons and photons (showers) used in the MicroBooNE deep learning-based low energy electron search. The reconstruction algorithm uses a combination of traditional and deep learning-based techniques to estimate shower energies. We validate these predictions using two $\nu_{\mu}$-sourced data samples: charged/neutral current interactions with final state neutral pions and charged current interactions in which the muon stops and decays within the detector producing a Michel electron. Both the neutral pion sample and Michel electron sample demonstrate agreement between data and simulation. Further, the absolute shower energy scale is shown to be consistent with the relevant physical constant of each sample: the neutral pion mass peak and the Michel energy cutoff., Comment: 27 pages; matches published version

Published
2021

9. Cosmic Ray Background Rejection with Wire-Cell LArTPC Event Reconstruction in the MicroBooNE Detector

Author

D. Cianci, A. Hourlier, G. Yarbrough, W. Q. Gu, R. S. Fitzpatrick, T. Kobilarcik, G. Scanavini, M. Del Tutto, P. M. Hamilton, Antonio Ereditato, W. G. Seligman, M. E. Convery, Yichen Li, William Tang, R. Dorrill, B. Eberly, M. Toups, A. Marchionni, K. Mason, M. Bishai, W. C. Louis, M. Kirby, E. Yandel, J. Martín-Albo, E.L. Snider, Xiaohui Qian, H. Y. Wei, G. Karagiorgi, L.S. Rochester, T. L. Usher, Panagiotis Spentzouris, Steven Gardiner, S.R. Soleti, S. Berkman, E. Church, Laura Dominé, B. Viren, R. An, M. Soderberg, L. Ren, J. Mousseau, W. Ketchum, P. Nienaber, L. Escudero Sanchez, A. Mastbaum, E.-C. Huang, J. Anthony, C. Barnes, A. Rafique, Yi Chen, P. Guzowski, E. D. Hall, B. Russell, B. T. Fleming, S. Prince, G. P. Zeller, Afroditi Papadopoulou, T. Wongjirad, H. E. Rogers, J. Moon, J. Zennamo, T. Mettler, John Marshall, J. L. Raaf, D. Devitt, K. E. Duffy, D. Garcia-Gamez, N. Kamp, K. Mistry, M. Rosenberg, O. Benevides Rodrigues, L. Cooper-Troendle, W. Van De Pontseele, P. Abratenko, T. A. Mohayai, R. Castillo Fernandez, G. A. Horton-Smith, S. A. Dytman, D. A. Martinez Caicedo, L. Mora Lepin, N. McConkey, R. Diurba, Ornella Palamara, R. A. Johnson, M. Alrashed, J. Jan de Vries, J. St. John, A. P. Furmanski, D. Marsden, I. Ponce-Pinto, I. Lepetic, M. Ross-Lonergan, C. D. Moore, D. Naples, Kazuhiro Terao, A. Paudel, Chao Zhang, E. Piasetzky, Giuseppe Benedetto Cerati, D. Porzio, G. A. Fiorentini Aguirre, Andrew Smith, Janet Conrad, Andrew Blake, C. Thorpe, L. Jiang, S. Tufanli, Y.-J. Jwa, L. Bathe-Peters, Xiaolu Ji, Avi Ashkenazi, S. Wolbers, L.E. Yates, S. Söldner-Rembold, A. M. Szelc, Veljko Radeka, M. Reggiani-Guzzo, A. Bhanderi, N. Kaneshige, S. F. Pate, S. Sword-Fehlberg, T. A. Bolton, Y. T. Tsai, S. Gollapinni, L. Camilleri, R. LaZur, J. Sinclair, M. H. Shaevitz, J. I. Crespo-Anadón, X. Luo, V. Meddage, I. Kreslo, I. Caro Terrazas, R. Itay, G. Ge, Michael T. Murphy, S. Balasubramanian, Thomas Strauss, M. Wospakrik, John Evans, O. Goodwin, D. W. Schmitz, B. Baller, T. Yang, D. Lorca, R. Guenette, Marc Weber, C. James, V. Basque, V. Papavassiliou, M. Mooney, A. F. Moor, H. W. Yu, V. Paolone, J. Mills, R. Sharankova, K. Li, F. Cavanna, Wei Wu, E. Gramellini, D. Franco, A. Schukraft, J. Asaadi, B. R. Littlejohn, A. Mogan, A. Navrer-Agasson, M. Stancari, Z. Pavlovic, J. Rodriguez Rondon, Kate C. Miller, L. Hagaman, J. Spitz, R. K. Neely, Or Hen, J. A. Nowak, Z. Williams, Patrick Green, M. A. Uchida, N. Foppiani, C. Mariani, H. Greenlee, K. Sutton, B. Kirby, N. Tagg, J. H. Jo, G.D. Barr, D. Caratelli, A. Bhat, and Collaboration, MicroBooNE

Subjects
Physics, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Time projection chamber, COSMIC cancer database, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Detector, FOS: Physical sciences, General Physics and Astronomy, Flux, Cosmic ray, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), 02 engineering and technology, 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology, 01 natural sciences, Visible energy, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear physics, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), 0103 physical sciences, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Neutrino, 010306 general physics, 0210 nano-technology, Event reconstruction
Abstract

For a large liquid-argon time-projection chamber (LArTPC) operating on or near the Earth's surface to detect neutrino interactions, the rejection of cosmogenic background is a critical and challenging task because of the large cosmic-ray flux and the long drift time of the time-projection chamber. We introduce a superior cosmic background rejection procedure based on the Wire-Cell three-dimensional (3D) event reconstruction for LArTPCs. From an initial 1:20 000 neutrino to cosmic-ray background ratio, we demonstrate these tools on data from the MicroBooNE experiment and create a high-performance generic neutrino event selection with a cosmic contamination of 14.9% (9.7%) for a visible energy region greater than O(200) MeV. The neutrino interaction selection efficiency is 80.4% and 87.6% for inclusive νμ charged-current and νe charged-current interactions, respectively. This significantly improved performance compared with existing reconstruction algorithms marks a major milestone toward reaching the scientific goals of LArTPC neutrino oscillation experiments operating near the Earth's surface.

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2021
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10. Measurement of Space Charge Effects in the MicroBooNE LArTPC Using Cosmic Muons

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M. Soderberg, G. A. Fiorentini Aguirre, Or Hen, Janet Conrad, B.T. Fleming, Z. Williams, R. S. Fitzpatrick, A. Mastbaum, E.-C. Huang, A. Mogan, M. Del Tutto, M. E. Convery, G. Karagiorgi, S. Berkman, C. Barnes, A. Rafique, N. McConkey, Andrew Smith, I. Kreslo, R. K. Neely, S. Wolbers, R. T. Thornton, A. Marchionni, P. Abratenko, P. Nienaber, A. Bhat, Yang Li, S. Dytman, D. Garcia-Gamez, Antonio Ereditato, A. P. Furmanski, V. Meddage, G. P. Zeller, R. Castillo Fernandez, B. Eberly, M. A. Uchida, Panagiotis Spentzouris, Ornella Palamara, R. A. Johnson, M. Rosenberg, T. Mettler, John Marshall, L. Ren, H. Y. Wei, L. Escudero Sanchez, B. Russell, O. Goodwin, Afroditi Papadopoulou, W. Ketchum, A. Hourlier, H. E. Rogers, J. Anthony, I. Lepetic, D. Cianci, L. Cooper-Troendle, L. Domine, Avi Ashkenazi, K. E. Duffy, J. Martín-Albo, O. Benevides Rodrigues, R. Diurba, E.L. Snider, S. F. Pate, Xin Qian, R. Guenette, J. Zennamo, T. A. Mohayai, D. Porzio, J. Mills, K. Mistry, Xiaolu Ji, Y.-J. Jwa, L. Rochester, M. H. Shaevitz, J. St. John, M. Bishai, C.D. Moore, J. Moon, I. Caro Terrazas, A. M. Szelc, A. Navrer-Agasson, P. M. Hamilton, A. Bhanderi, W. Van De Pontseele, S. Sword-Fehlberg, T. Yang, M. Reggiani-Guzzo, F. Cavanna, Veljko Radeka, John Evans, J. Rodriguez Rondon, C. James, S. Söldner-Rembold, T. Wongjirad, V. Papavassiliou, M. Mooney, V. Paolone, D. Naples, J. L. Raaf, V. Basque, Wei Wu, M. Ross-Lonergan, Thomas Strauss, S. Gollapinni, William Tang, R. An, B. R. Littlejohn, W. C. Louis, M. Wospakrik, D. Devitt, M. Toups, L. Gu, Patrick Green, L. Bathe-Peters, L.E. Yates, J. Jan de Vries, A. F. Moor, Michael H Kirby, T. Kobilarcik, G. Yarbrough, J. Asaadi, G. Scanavini, D. Franco, I. Ponce-Pinto, Kate C. Miller, T. Usher, X. Luo, R. G. Van de Water, B. Baller, L. Camilleri, J. Sinclair, Giuseppe Benedetto Cerati, J. I. Crespo-Anadón, W. Gu, R. Dorrill, D. W. Schmitz, R. LaZur, K. Mason, Andrew Blake, C. Thorpe, L. Jiang, K. Li, J. A. Nowak, Marc Weber, S. Tufanli, N. Foppiani, C. Mariani, D. Lorca, S. Prince, D. A. Martinez Caicedo, Yi Chen, Kazuhiro Terao, H. Greenlee, R. Sharankova, G. A. Horton-Smith, A. Paudel, E. Piasetzky, A. Schukraft, K. Sutton, B. Kirby, T. Bolton, E. Hall, Michael T. Murphy, Z. Pavlovic, D. Marsden, M. Alrashed, J. Spitz, Chao Zhang, P. Guzowski, R. Itay, E. Gramellini, S. Marcocci, M. Stancari, S. Balasubramanian, Y.-T. Tsai, N. Kamp, Eliahu Cohen, E. Church, N. Tagg, J. H. Jo, G.D. Barr, D. Caratelli, Steven Gardiner, S.R. Soleti, B. Viren, and J. Mousseau

Subjects
Physics, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, 530 Physics, Monte Carlo method, Detector, FOS: Physical sciences, Context (language use), Cosmic ray, Electron, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), 530 Physik, 01 natural sciences, Space charge, 030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging, Computational physics, High Energy Physics - Experiment, 03 medical and health sciences, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), 0302 clinical medicine, Electric field, Ionization, 0103 physical sciences, Instrumentation, Mathematical Physics
Abstract

Large liquid argon time projection chambers (LArTPCs), especially those operating near the surface, are susceptible to space charge effects. In the context of LArTPCs, the space charge effect is the build-up of slow-moving positive ions in the detector primarily due to ionization from cosmic rays, leading to a distortion of the electric field within the detector. This effect leads to a displacement in the reconstructed position of signal ionization electrons in LArTPC detectors ("spatial distortions"), as well as to variations in the amount of electron-ion recombination experienced by ionization throughout the volume of the TPC. We present techniques that can be used to measure and correct for space charge effects in large LArTPCs by making use of cosmic muons, including the use of track pairs to unambiguously pin down spatial distortions in three dimensions. The performance of these calibration techniques are studied using both Monte Carlo simulation and MicroBooNE data, utilizing a UV laser system as a means to estimate the systematic bias associated with the calibration methodology., Comment: 38 pages, 25 figures

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2020
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11. First Measurement of Differential Charged Current Quasielasticlike νμ -Argon Scattering Cross Sections with the MicroBooNE Detector

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S. Marcocci, M. Kirby, L. Ren, D. A. Martinez Caicedo, S. Balasubramanian, K. Mistry, R. Sharankova, Avi Ashkenazi, M. Ross-Lonergan, J. St. John, G. A. Fiorentini Aguirre, A. Schukraft, V. Meddage, Eliahu Cohen, O. Goodwin, W. Ketchum, Veljko Radeka, M. H. Shaevitz, I. Caro Terrazas, S. Wolbers, N. Foppiani, M. Bishai, C. Mariani, G. Yarbrough, P. Abratenko, A. P. Furmanski, R. An, P. M. Hamilton, K. Li, H. Greenlee, C. Barnes, A. Rafique, A. Mogan, T. Yang, A. Hourlier, V. Basque, M. A. Uchida, K. Sutton, B. Kirby, B. Eberly, Xiaolu Ji, A. M. Szelc, T. A. Bolton, L. Camilleri, V. Paolone, A. Bhanderi, S. Sword-Fehlberg, Thomas Strauss, P. Guzowski, S. Gollapinni, A. Mastbaum, S. F. Pate, B.T. Fleming, E.-C. Huang, R. Itay, J. Martín-Albo, T. Usher, L. Bathe-Peters, E.L. Snider, Patrick Green, J. Anthony, G. Karagiorgi, D. Franco, X. Luo, R. LaZur, B. Baller, K. E. Duffy, O. Benevides Rodrigues, W. Q. Gu, R. S. Fitzpatrick, W. C. Louis, P. Nienaber, J. Asaadi, Marc Weber, N. Kamp, A. F. Moor, G. Scanavini, Xiaohui Qian, H. Y. Wei, L. Escudero Sanchez, I. Lepetic, E. Church, J. Mills, L. Rochester, R. Dorrill, Z. Pavlovic, A. Navrer-Agasson, L.E. Yates, L. Domine, R. Castillo Fernandez, Ornella Palamara, R. A. Johnson, S. Prince, A. Marchionni, K. Mason, D. Garcia-Gamez, T. A. Mohayai, S. Berkman, Y.-J. Jwa, D. Naples, Kazuhiro Terao, A. Paudel, J. Jan de Vries, E. Piasetzky, J. Rodriguez Rondon, Steven Gardiner, J. Zennamo, L. Cooper-Troendle, S. Tufanli, M. Rosenberg, J. L. Raaf, D. Cianci, D. Marsden, R. K. Neely, J. Sinclair, John Evans, T. Wongjirad, G. P. Zeller, J. Spitz, M. Soderberg, A. Bhat, S.R. Soleti, D. Devitt, Yi Chen, J. I. Crespo-Anadón, T. Mettler, John Marshall, B. Viren, W. Van De Pontseele, M. Reggiani-Guzzo, R. Diurba, I. Ponce-Pinto, J. Mousseau, H. E. Rogers, G. A. Horton-Smith, Or Hen, Andrew Blake, C. Thorpe, L. Jiang, M. Wospakrik, C. James, C. D. Moore, M. E. Convery, T. Kobilarcik, D. Porzio, Z. Williams, D. W. Schmitz, Chao Zhang, V. Papavassiliou, M. Mooney, R. G. Van de Water, S. Söldner-Rembold, N. McConkey, Giuseppe Benedetto Cerati, Andrew Smith, J. A. Nowak, B. R. Littlejohn, M. Alrashed, I. Kreslo, Yichen Li, Panagiotis Spentzouris, William Tang, E. D. Hall, M. Del Tutto, Kate C. Miller, M. Toups, J. Moon, S. A. Dytman, L. Gu, Janet Conrad, B. Russell, Afroditi Papadopoulou, D. Lorca, R. Guenette, Antonio Ereditato, R. T. Thornton, Michael T. Murphy, F. Cavanna, Wei Wu, E. Gramellini, N. Tagg, J. H. Jo, M. Stancari, Y.-T. Tsai, G.D. Barr, and D. Caratelli

Subjects
Physics, Muon, Time projection chamber, Proton, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Scattering, General Physics and Astronomy, Nuclear physics, Cross section (physics), Pion, Physics::Accelerator Physics, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Muon neutrino, Charged current
Abstract

We report on the first measurement of flux-integrated single differential cross sections for charged-current (CC) muon neutrino (ν_{μ}) scattering on argon with a muon and a proton in the final state, ^{40}Ar (ν_{μ},μp)X. The measurement was carried out using the Booster Neutrino Beam at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and the MicroBooNE liquid argon time projection chamber detector with an exposure of 4.59×10^{19} protons on target. Events are selected to enhance the contribution of CC quasielastic (CCQE) interactions. The data are reported in terms of a total cross section as well as single differential cross sections in final state muon and proton kinematics. We measure the integrated per-nucleus CCQE-like cross section (i.e., for interactions leading to a muon, one proton, and no pions above detection threshold) of (4.93±0.76_{stat}±1.29_{sys})×10^{-38} cm^{2}, in good agreement with theoretical calculations. The single differential cross sections are also in overall good agreement with theoretical predictions, except at very forward muon scattering angles that correspond to low-momentum-transfer events.

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2020
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12. Reconstruction and measurement of (100) MeV energy electromagnetic activity from π0 arrow γγ decays in the MicroBooNE LArTPC

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D. Garcia-Gamez, A. Bhat, W. C. Louis, S. F. Pate, L.E. Yates, A. P. Furmanski, J. Sinclair, J. I. Crespo-Anadón, N. Foppiani, C. Mariani, D. W. Schmitz, Yichen Li, J. Jan de Vries, G. P. Zeller, William Tang, D. Lorca, R. Guenette, Andrew Blake, F. Cavanna, Lei Jiang, Wei Wu, J. Asaadi, T. Mettler, K. Mason, C. Rudolf von Rohr, C. James, H. Greenlee, M. Toups, John Marshall, V. Papavassiliou, M. Mooney, Xiaohui Qian, K. Sutton, Z. Pavlovic, H. Y. Wei, L. Escudero Sanchez, B. Kirby, A. Mastbaum, L. Gu, Giuseppe Benedetto Cerati, J. J. Evans, S. Marcocci, Avi Ashkenazi, B. T. Fleming, B. R. Littlejohn, G. Pulliam, Xiaolu Ji, V. Genty, W. Ketchum, D. Porzio, T. Usher, J. Zennamo, C. Adams, A. M. Szelc, A. Bhanderi, Colin Hill, Yi Chen, S. Sword-Fehlberg, Janet Conrad, M. Bishai, M. H. Shaevitz, I. Caro Terrazas, A. Hourlier, L. Cooper-Troendle, W. Van De Pontseele, R. Itay, M. Bass, N. Tagg, J. H. Jo, Thomas Strauss, G. Karagiorgi, P. Nienaber, S. Tufanli, Alejandro Diaz, V. Paolone, M. Luethi, R. T. Thornton, Kate C. Miller, K. Woodruff, S. Söldner-Rembold, J. Martín-Albo, E.L. Snider, Michael T. Murphy, R. S. Fitzpatrick, J. L. Raaf, Afroditi Papadopoulou, M. Ross-Lonergan, T. A. Bolton, L. Camilleri, V. Meddage, E. Gramellini, M. Kirby, Eliahu Cohen, T. Yang, R. An, G.D. Barr, P. Guzowski, O. Goodwin, Y.-T. Tsai, E.-C. Huang, B. Russell, G. Yarbrough, L. Ren, V. Basque, K. Mistry, S. Prince, F. Bay, H.E. Rogers, M. Stancari, D. Caratelli, T. Kobilarcik, D. Devitt, A. Marchionni, S. Wolbers, D.A. Wickremasinghe, K. E. Duffy, B. Lundberg, G. Scanavini, T. Wongjirad, S. Lockwitz, J. Mills, T. A. Mohayai, G. A. Horton-Smith, C. D. Moore, E. Church, R. Murrells, R. Grosso, D. Franco, A. Mogan, W. Gu, J. St. John, S. Balasubramanian, L. Rochester, Marc Weber, A. Lister, M. Alrashed, M. E. Convery, B. Eberly, Chao Zhang, L. Domine, P. Green, R. Carr, R. K. Neely, R. Sharankova, J. Anthony, X. Luo, Y.-J. Jwa, I. Lepetic, W. G. Seligman, A. Schukraft, Steven Gardiner, S.R. Soleti, D. Goeldi, B. Viren, J. Mousseau, D. A. Martinez Caicedo, M. Del Tutto, J. Spitz, Antonio Ereditato, S. Gollapinni, M. Soderberg, S. Berkman, C. Barnes, A. Rafique, Or Hen, R. Castillo Fernandez, Ornella Palamara, R. A. Johnson, D. Cianci, Z. Williams, N. McConkey, Andrew Smith, I. Kreslo, D. Naples, Kazuhiro Terao, A. Paudel, E. Piasetzky, M. Wospakrik, R. G. Van de Water, Vishvas Pandey, J. A. Nowak, J. Esquivel, Panagiotis Spentzouris, J. Moon, S. A. Dytman, J. Joshi, B. Baller, and P. M. Hamilton

Subjects
Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Noble liquid detectors (scintillation, ionization, double-phase), Pattern recognition, cluster finding, calibration and fitting methods, Performance of High Energy Physics Detectors, Time projection chambers, double-phase), calibration and fitting methods, 01 natural sciences, 030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Noble liquid detectors (scintillation, cluster finding, Pattern recognition, 0103 physical sciences, ionization, Instrumentation, Mathematical Physics, Mathematical physics
Abstract

Author(s): Adams, C; Alrashed, M; An, R; Anthony, J; Asaadi, J; Ashkenazi, A; Balasubramanian, S; Baller, B; Barnes, C; Barr, G; Basque, V; Bass, M; Bay, F; Berkman, S; Bhanderi, A; Bhat, A; Bishai, M; Blake, A; Bolton, T; Camilleri, L; Caratelli, D; Terrazas, IC; Carr, R; Fernandez, RC; Cavanna, F; Cerati, G; Chen, Y; Church, E; Cianci, D; Cohen, EO; Conrad, JM; Convery, M; Cooper-Troendle, L; Crespo-Anadon, JI; Tutto, MD; Devitt, D; Diaz, A; Domine, L; Duffy, K; Dytman, S; Eberly, B; Ereditato, A; Sanchez, LE; Esquivel, J; Evans, JJ; Fitzpatrick, RS; Fleming, BT; Foppiani, N; Franco, D; Furmanski, AP; Garcia-Gamez, D; Gardiner, S; Genty, V; Goeldi, D; Gollapinni, S; Goodwin, O; Gramellini, E; Green, P; Greenlee, H; Grosso, R; Gu, L; Gu, W; Guenette, R; Guzowski, P; Hamilton, P; Hen, O; Hill, C; Horton-Smith, GA; Hourlier, A; Huang, EC; Itay, R; James, C; De Vries, JJ; Ji, X; Jiang, L; Jo, JH; Johnson, RA; Joshi, J; Jwa, YJ; Karagiorgi, G; Ketchum, W; Kirby, B; Kirby, M; Kobilarcik, T; Kreslo, I | Abstract: We present results on the reconstruction of electromagnetic (EM) activity from photons produced in charged current νμ interactions with final state π0s. We employ a fully-automated reconstruction chain capable of identifying EM showers of (100) MeV energy, relying on a combination of traditional reconstruction techniques together with novel machine-learning approaches. These studies demonstrate good energy resolution, and good agreement between data and simulation, relying on the reconstructed invariant π0 mass and other photon distributions for validation. The reconstruction techniques developed are applied to a selection of νμ + Ar → μ + π0 + X candidate events to demonstrate the potential for calorimetric separation of photons from electrons and reconstruction of π0 kinematics.

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2020

13. Search for Heavy Neutral Leptons Decaying into Muon-Pion Pairs in the MicroBooNE Detector

Author

A. Mogan, T. Wongjirad, Michael H Kirby, Kazuhiro Terao, A. Paudel, E. Piasetzky, Sanchez, K. Mason, R. K. Neely, B. Russell, D. Cianci, M. Wospakrik, T. Kobilarcik, H. E. Rogers, S. Lockwitz, A. P. Furmanski, R. G. Van de Water, Vishvas Pandey, Afroditi Papadopoulou, W. Ketchum, J. C. Mills, J. A. Nowak, Janet Conrad, Yi Chen, Serhan Tufanli, L. Camilleri, T. Yang, V. Basque, Xiaolu Ji, A. M. Szelc, A. Mastbaum, B. R. Littlejohn, A. Bhanderi, M. Bishai, M. Ross-Lonergan, E.L. Snider, S. Sword-Fehlberg, L.S. Rochester, T. L. Usher, Panagiotis Spentzouris, A. Hourlier, G. Scanavini, Eliahu Cohen, J. Asaadi, Kate C. Miller, Steven Gardiner, S.R. Soleti, B. Viren, J. Zennamo, Laura Dominé, J. Moon, Thomas Strauss, D. Garcia-Gamez, Paul J. Green, S. F. Pate, S. Wolbers, R. Murrells, C.D. Moore, Veljko Radeka, K. P. Mistry, D. Lorca, L. Gu, O. Palamara, Z. Pavlovic, B. Baller, J. Mousseau, D. Franco, A. Rafique, X. Luo, C. Rudolf von Rohr, P. Abratenko, M. E. Convery, S. Balasubramanian, D. Devitt, H. Y. Wei, E.-C. Huang, Chao Zhang, C. James, V. Papavassiliou, M. Mooney, G. A. Horton-Smith, Or Hen, D.W. Schmitz, R. Castillo Fernandez, B. Lundberg, M. Del Tutto, P. Nienaber, Y. T. Tsai, Yang Li, B. Eberly, M. Alrashed, M. A. Uchida, R. A. Johnson, J. R. Sinclair, Z. Williams, A. Marchionni, D. A. Wickremasinghe, M. Luethi, William Tang, T. Mettler, John Marshall, S. Gollapinni, G. Yarbrough, Rod Thornton, R. LaZur, M. Weber, L. Cooper-Troendle, S. Dytman, Alison Lister, N. McConkey, W. Van De Pontseele, V. Genty, L. Escudero, J. Anthony, M. H. Shaevitz, I. Caro Terrazas, Antonio Ereditato, Craig L. Hill, P. M. Hamilton, D. Porzio, D. Naples, W. C. Louis, J. Joshi, I. Lepetic, Cris W. Barnes, W. G. Seligman, E. Church, N. Tagg, J. H. Jo, J. Spitz, G.D. Barr, J. St. John, D. Caratelli, G. Karagiorgi, D. Goeldi, D. A. Martinez Caicedo, N. Foppiani, C. Mariani, B.T. Fleming, W. Q. Gu, R. S. Fitzpatrick, H. Greenlee, L. Ren, K. Sutton, B. Kirby, J. Martin-Albo, T. Bolton, S. Berkman, J. Jan de Vries, G. P. Zeller, I. Kreslo, M. Toups, Andrew Blake, L. Jiang, S. Marcocci, R. An, Adi Ashkenazi, P. Guzowski, R. Itay, S. Söldner-Rembold, Sebastien Prince, M. Soderberg, J. L. Raaf, R. Sharankova, A. Schukraft, R. Guenette, F. Cavanna, Wei Wu, L.E. Yates, Giuseppe Benedetto Cerati, J. I. Crespo-Anadón, V. Meddage, O. Goodwin, A. Bhat, A. M. Smith, V. Paolone, Y.-J. Jwa, K. Woodruff, John Evans, K. E. Duffy, Xin Qian, T. A. Mohayai, G. Pulliam, E. Gramellini, M. Stancari, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics

Subjects
Physics, Particle physics, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Muon, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, 530 Physics, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, FOS: Physical sciences, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), Neutrino beam, 530 Physik, 01 natural sciences, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Standard Model, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), Pion, 0103 physical sciences, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Fermilab, Neutrino, 010306 general physics, Lepton
Abstract

This document was prepared by the MicroBooNE Collaboration using the resources of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), a U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, HEP User Facility. Fermilab is managed by Fermi Research Alliance, LLC (FRA), acting under Contract No. DE-AC02-07CH11359. MicroBooNE is supported by the following: the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Offices of High Energy Physics and Nuclear Physics; the U.S. National Science Foundation; the Swiss National Science Foundation; the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), part of the United Kingdom Research and Innovation; and The Royal Society (United Kingdom). Additional support for the laser calibration system and cosmic ray tagger was provided by the Albert Einstein Center for Fundamental Physics, Bern, Switzerland., We present upper limits on the production of heavy neutral leptons (HNLs) decaying to μπ pairs using data collected with the MicroBooNE liquid-argon time projection chamber (TPC) operating at Fermilab. This search is the first of its kind performed in a liquid-argon TPC. We use data collected in 2017 and 2018 corresponding to an exposure of 2.0×1020 protons on target from the Fermilab Booster Neutrino Beam, which produces mainly muon neutrinos with an average energy of ≈800 MeV. HNLs with higher mass are expected to have a longer time of flight to the liquid-argon TPC than Standard Model neutrinos. The data are therefore recorded with a dedicated trigger configured to detect HNL decays that occur after the neutrino spill reaches the detector. We set upper limits at the 90% confidence level on the element |Uμ4|2 of the extended PMNS mixing matrix in the range |Uμ4|2, Fermilab is managed by Fermi Research Alliance, LLC (FRA), acting under Contract No. DE-AC02-07CH11359

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2020
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14. First Measurement of Inclusive Muon Neutrino Charged Current Differential Cross Sections on Argon at Eν∼0.8 GeV with the MicroBooNE Detector

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Colin Hill, A. Bhat, D. Lorca, H. Jostlein, R. Murrells, M. Bass, E. Church, N. Tagg, A. Mogan, J. Jan de Vries, L. Cooper-Troendle, V. Meddage, O. Goodwin, C. Rudolf von Rohr, X. Luo, D. A. Martinez Caicedo, Xiaohui Qian, G.D. Barr, H. Y. Wei, L. Escudero Sanchez, S. Gollapinni, A. Mastbaum, A. Hourlier, Avi Ashkenazi, R. G. Van de Water, Vishvas Pandey, D. Caratelli, Chao Zhang, G. P. Zeller, L. Domine, J. A. Nowak, Andrew Blake, L.E. Yates, S. Marcocci, B. R. Littlejohn, T. Mettler, John Marshall, V. Genty, C. Barnes, A. Rafique, J. Zennamo, M. Ross-Lonergan, C. Adams, G. Karagiorgi, M. E. Convery, T. Kobilarcik, Giuseppe Benedetto Cerati, J. Sinclair, J. I. Crespo-Anadón, G. Scanavini, K. Bhattacharya, R. Castillo Fernandez, P. Nienaber, E.-C. Huang, F. Bay, H.E. Rogers, W. Van De Pontseele, Ornella Palamara, R. A. Johnson, G. Yarbrough, D. Porzio, V. Paolone, D. Cianci, D. W. Schmitz, K. Woodruff, Yichen Li, S. Balasubramanian, M. Del Tutto, B. Eberly, Alejandro Diaz, Janet Conrad, Martin Auger, G. Pulliam, R. Guenette, J. Esquivel, A. Marchionni, William Tang, M. H. Shaevitz, I. Caro Terrazas, D. Franco, Panagiotis Spentzouris, S. Söldner-Rembold, J. Anthony, M. Toups, D.A. Wickremasinghe, J. Asaadi, J. Joshi, I. Lepetic, K. Mason, J. Mills, Eliahu Cohen, J. Moon, M. Bishai, Antonio Ereditato, J. Spitz, L. Rochester, J. J. Evans, F. Cavanna, R. An, T. Usher, B. Baller, S. Tufanli, D. Devitt, J. Martín-Albo, B.T. Fleming, T. Wongjirad, E.L. Snider, S. A. Dytman, D. Garcia-Gamez, W. Ketchum, Yi Chen, Wei Wu, M. A. Thomson, R. Carr, K. E. Duffy, A. Hackenburg, C. D. Moore, R. T. Thornton, S. F. Pate, P. Guzowski, D. Naples, Kazuhiro Terao, E. Piasetzky, R. S. Fitzpatrick, C. Mariani, W. Gu, K. Wierman, S.R. Soleti, B. Viren, J. Mousseau, H. Greenlee, K. Sutton, Michael T. Murphy, B. Kirby, C. James, M. Kirby, S. Wolbers, E. Gramellini, V. Papavassiliou, M. Mooney, M. Stancari, T. A. Bolton, Y.-T. Tsai, L. Camilleri, P. M. Hamilton, G. H. Collin, T. Yang, P. Abratenko, L. Ren, J. L. Raaf, Marc Weber, S. Lockwitz, Lei Jiang, B. Lundberg, G. A. Horton-Smith, M. Luethi, M. Alrashed, J. St. John, K. Mistry, R. Sharankova, Z. Pavlovic, A. Schukraft, A. P. Furmanski, A. Lister, W. C. Louis, B. Russell, Afroditi Papadopoulou, Xiaolu Ji, Andrew Smith, A. M. Szelc, W. G. Seligman, L. Gu, I. Kreslo, S. Sword-Fehlberg, Thomas Strauss, D. Goeldi, M. Soderberg, Or Hen, Z. Williams, Y.-J. Jwa, and R. Grosso

Subjects
Physics, Quasielastic scattering, Muon, Time projection chamber, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, General Physics and Astronomy, 01 natural sciences, Nuclear physics, Cross section (physics), 0103 physical sciences, Physics::Accelerator Physics, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Muon neutrino, Fermilab, Neutrino, 010306 general physics, Charged current
Abstract

We report the first measurement of the double-differential and total muon neutrino charged current inclusive cross sections on argon at a mean neutrino energy of 0.8 GeV. Data were collected using the MicroBooNE liquid argon time projection chamber located in the Fermilab Booster neutrino beam and correspond to 1.6×10^{20} protons on target of exposure. The measured differential cross sections are presented as a function of muon momentum, using multiple Coulomb scattering as a momentum measurement technique, and the muon angle with respect to the beam direction. We compare the measured cross sections to multiple neutrino event generators and find better agreement with those containing more complete treatment of quasielastic scattering processes at low Q^{2}. The total flux integrated cross section is measured to be 0.693±0.010(stat)±0.165(syst)×10^{-38} cm^{2}.

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2019
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15. Rejecting cosmic background for exclusive charged current quasi elastic neutrino interaction studies with Liquid Argon TPCs; a case study with the MicroBooNE detector

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G. Karagiorgi, P. Nienaber, K. Woodruff, C. Barnes, A. Rafique, William Tang, M. Toups, D. Devitt, R. An, R. Castillo Fernandez, P. M. Hamilton, M. E. Convery, Ornella Palamara, R. A. Johnson, G. Scanavini, J. Martín-Albo, E.L. Snider, M. A. Thomson, Xiaolu Ji, Kazuhiro Terao, G. H. Collin, D. Lorca, J. Jan de Vries, E. Piasetzky, A.A. Fadeeva, B.T. Fleming, J. Joshi, D. Naples, A. M. Szelc, S. Sword-Fehlberg, D. Cianci, S. Wolbers, K. Mistry, Andrew Blake, R. S. Fitzpatrick, J. Hewes, R. Murrells, W. C. Louis, Thomas Strauss, L. Jiang, C. Mariani, G. A. Horton-Smith, Michael H Kirby, C. Rudolf von Rohr, H. Y. Wei, L. Escudero Sanchez, G. Yarbrough, C.D. Moore, T. Usher, Andrew Smith, H. Greenlee, M. Alrashed, K. Sutton, V. Paolone, A. Mastbaum, A. P. Furmanski, B. Kirby, B. Baller, I. Kreslo, R. G. Van de Water, Giuseppe Benedetto Cerati, J. Zennamo, S. Marcocci, T. Bolton, C. Adams, Vishvas Pandey, L. Ren, B. Eberly, W. G. Seligman, S. Balasubramanian, A. Lister, L. Cooper-Troendle, T. Wongjirad, K. Bhattacharya, L. Camilleri, J. A. Nowak, W. Van De Pontseele, B. Lundberg, B. R. Littlejohn, M. Ross-Lonergan, J. Anthony, D. Goeldi, Yang Li, S. Dytman, G. P. Zeller, T. Mettler, John Marshall, T. Yang, J. Esquivel, M. Luethi, I. Lepetic, J. St. John, Janet Conrad, Martin Auger, L.E. Yates, D.A. Wickremasinghe, Panagiotis Spentzouris, Avi Ashkenazi, R. T. Thornton, Eliahu Cohen, M. Soderberg, F. Bay, J. Asaadi, J. Spitz, Marc Weber, Or Hen, J. Moon, L. Rochester, V. Genty, J. Sinclair, Z. Williams, D. Porzio, J. I. Crespo-Anadón, K. Wierman, S. Tufanli, D. W. Schmitz, Alejandro Diaz, B. Russell, S. Söldner-Rembold, M. H. Shaevitz, I. Caro Terrazas, Chao Zhang, H. Jostlein, T. Kobilarcik, Y.-J. Jwa, X. Luo, Z. Pavlovic, A. Hourlier, J. L. Raaf, S. Lockwitz, D. Garcia-Gamez, R. Grosso, V. Meddage, A. Bhat, O. Goodwin, S. F. Pate, R. Guenette, D. A. Martinez Caicedo, S. Gollapinni, F. Cavanna, J. J. Evans, R. Sharankova, A. Schukraft, Yi Chen, E.-C. Huang, S.R. Soleti, B. Viren, J. Mousseau, A. Marchionni, Afroditi Papadopoulou, W. Ketchum, M. Del Tutto, K. E. Duffy, Xin Qian, R. Carr, Antonio Ereditato, Craig L. Hill, M. Bishai, Michael T. Murphy, M. Bass, E. Church, N. Tagg, G.D. Barr, E. Gramellini, D. Caratelli, A. Hackenburg, Y.-T. Tsai, P. Guzowski, G. Pulliam, D. Franco, A. Mogan, C. James, V. Papavassiliou, and M. Mooney

Subjects
Physics, Muon, Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous), 530 Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Detector, Cosmic background radiation, lcsh:Astrophysics, Cosmic ray, 01 natural sciences, Nuclear physics, lcsh:QB460-466, 0103 physical sciences, lcsh:QC770-798, lcsh:Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Neutrino, 010306 general physics, Neutrino oscillation, Engineering (miscellaneous), Event (particle physics), Charged current
Abstract

Cosmic ray (CR) interactions can be a challenging source of background for neutrino oscillation and cross-section measurements in surface detectors. We present methods for CR rejection in measurements of charged-current quasielastic-like (CCQE-like) neutrino interactions, with a muon and a proton in the final state, measured using liquid argon time projection chambers (LArTPCs). Using a sample of cosmic data collected with the MicroBooNE detector, mixed with simulated neutrino scattering events, a set of event selection criteria is developed that produces an event sample with minimal contribution from CR background. Depending on the selection criteria used a purity between 50 and 80% can be achieved with a signal selection efficiency between 50 and 25%, with higher purity coming at the expense of lower efficiency. While using a specific dataset and selection criteria values optimized for the MicroBooNE detector, the concepts presented here are generic and can be adapted for various studies of exclusive $$\nu _{\mu }$$ ν μ CCQE interactions in LArTPCs.

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2019
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16. First measurement of νμ charged-current π0 production on argon with the MicroBooNE detector

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H. Jostlein, S. Wolbers, E. Gramellini, M. Bishai, V. Paolone, V. Meddage, L.E. Yates, O. Goodwin, J. Spitz, J. St. John, R. Carr, A.A. Fadeeva, B. Russell, C. Mariani, E.L. Snider, J. I. Crespo-Anadón, C. Rudolf von Rohr, Xiaohui Qian, H. Y. Wei, L. Escudero Sanchez, E. Church, R. Murrells, C. W. James, K. E. Duffy, D.W. Schmitz, A. Rafique, H. Greenlee, J. L. Raaf, J. Esquivel, L.S. Rochester, J. R. Sinclair, A. Bhat, T. L. Usher, Panagiotis Spentzouris, A. Mastbaum, D. A. Wickremasinghe, K. Sutton, C. S. Hill, B. Kirby, S. Lockwitz, T. Mettler, John Marshall, M. A. Thomson, K. P. Mistry, Xiaolu Ji, C. Adams, Alison Lister, G. P. Zeller, A. M. Szelc, D. Garcia-Gamez, Michael T. Murphy, Afroditi Papadopoulou, M. Weber, T. Kobilarcik, A. Marchionni, Serhan Tufanli, A. P. Furmanski, L. Cooper-Troendle, R. Sharankova, J. Moon, R. Castillo Fernandez, S. Sword-Fehlberg, R. Grosso, W. Van De Pontseele, S. F. Pate, Giuseppe Benedetto Cerati, R. A. Johnson, A. M. Smith, T. Wongjirad, S.R. Soleti, P. Nienaber, G. Karagiorgi, S. A. Dytman, Thomas Strauss, D. Cianci, D. Porzio, J. Joshi, K. Bhattacharya, D. Lorca, R. Guenette, E.-C. Huang, A. Schukraft, Adi Ashkenazi, B. Viren, J. Mousseau, Alejandro Diaz, P. Guzowski, B. Eberly, Chao Zhang, S. Söldner-Rembold, G. Pulliam, William Tang, F. Cavanna, L. Jiang, J. Anthony, Kazuhiro Terao, Eliahu Cohen, Y.-J. Jwa, V. Genty, S. Gollapinni, M. Del Tutto, V. Papavassiliou, E. Piasetzky, I. Lepetic, M. Ross-Lonergan, K. Wierman, B. R. Littlejohn, J. Hewes, S. Balasubramanian, K. Woodruff, M. H. Shaevitz, I. Caro Terrazas, John Evans, B. Lundberg, G. Scanavini, Antonio Ereditato, B. Baller, P. M. Hamilton, D. Naples, Jan Conrad, J. Asaadi, M. Bass, N. Tagg, G.D. Barr, D. Caratelli, A. Hackenburg, M. Soderberg, R. G. Van de Water, Vishvas Pandey, Y. T. Tsai, Yang Li, O. Palamara, J. A. Nowak, Yi Chen, J. Jan de Vries, M. Luethi, M. E. Convery, W. C. Louis, M. Toups, A. Mogan, Margaret M. Mooney, F. Bay, Andrew Blake, J. Zennamo, T. A. Bolton, D. Franco, H. S. Chen, X. Luo, R. An, W. Ketchum, B.T. Fleming, R. S. Fitzpatrick, L. Ren, W. G. Seligman, D. Goeldi, T. Yang, G. H. Collin, A. Hourlier, Z. Pavlovic, G. A. Horton-Smith, D. Devitt, M. Alrashed, C. D. Moore, Martin Auger, R. T. Thornton, D. A. Martinez Caicedo, G. Yarbrough, L. Camilleri, Cris W. Barnes, J. Martin-Albo, I. Kreslo, S. Marcocci, Or Hen, Z. Williams, and M. H. Kirby

Subjects
Physics, Time projection chamber, Argon, chemistry, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, 0103 physical sciences, Liquid argon, chemistry.chemical_element, Neutrino beam, 010306 general physics, 01 natural sciences, Charged current, Mathematical physics
Abstract

Author(s): Adams, C; Alrashed, M; An, R; Anthony, J; Asaadi, J; Ashkenazi, A; Auger, M; Balasubramanian, S; Baller, B; Barnes, C; Barr, G; Bass, M; Bay, F; Bhat, A; Bhattacharya, K; Bishai, M; Blake, A; Bolton, T; Camilleri, L; Caratelli, D; Caro Terrazas, I; Carr, R; Castillo Fernandez, R; Cavanna, F; Cerati, G; Chen, H; Chen, Y; Church, E; Cianci, D; Cohen, E; Collin, GH; Conrad, JM; Convery, M; Cooper-Troendle, L; Crespo-Anadon, JI; Del Tutto, M; Devitt, D; Diaz, A; Duffy, K; Dytman, S; Eberly, B; Ereditato, A; Escudero Sanchez, L; Esquivel, J; Evans, JJ; Fadeeva, AA; Fitzpatrick, RS; Fleming, BT; Franco, D; Furmanski, AP; Garcia-Gamez, D; Genty, V; Goeldi, D; Gollapinni, S; Goodwin, O; Gramellini, E; Greenlee, H; Grosso, R; Guenette, R; Guzowski, P; Hackenburg, A; Hamilton, P; Hen, O; Hewes, J; Hill, C; Horton-Smith, GA; Hourlier, A; Huang, EC; James, C; Jan De Vries, J; Ji, X; Jiang, L; Johnson, RA; Joshi, J; Jostlein, H; Jwa, YJ; Karagiorgi, G; Ketchum, W; Kirby, B; Kirby, M; Kobilarcik, T; Kreslo, I; Lepetic, I; Li, Y; Lister, A | Abstract: We report the first measurement of the flux-integrated cross section of νμ charged-current single π0 production on argon. This measurement is performed with the MicroBooNE detector, an 85 ton active mass liquid argon time projection chamber exposed to the Booster Neutrino Beam at Fermilab. This result on argon is compared to past measurements on lighter nuclei to investigate the scaling assumptions used in models of the production and transport of pions in neutrino-nucleus scattering. The techniques used are an important demonstration of the successful reconstruction and analysis of neutrino interactions producing electromagnetic final states using a liquid argon time projection chamber operating at the Earth's surface.

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2019
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17. Comparison of $${\varvec{\nu }}_{\varvec{\mu }}-$$Ar multiplicity distributions observed by MicroBooNE to GENIE model predictions

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J. Spitz, D.A. Wickremasinghe, P. Guzowski, M. Del Tutto, D. A. Martinez Caicedo, D. Lorca, A. Hourlier, R. Guenette, G. H. Collin, B. R. Littlejohn, G. P. Zeller, C. Mariani, T. Mettler, John Marshall, D. Devitt, W. Ketchum, F. Bay, E.-C. Huang, F. Cavanna, Antonio Ereditato, B. Eberly, A.A. Fadeeva, H. Greenlee, G. Karagiorgi, P. Nienaber, L. Jiang, Y.-J. Jwa, K. Sutton, B. Kirby, K. Woodruff, C. D. Moore, A. Mogan, X. Luo, D. Garcia-Gamez, G. A. Horton-Smith, E. Church, R. Murrells, D. Porzio, S. F. Pate, J. Anthony, G. Yarbrough, S. Marcocci, R. An, A. M. Szelc, Andrew Smith, S. Tufanli, Alejandro Diaz, John Evans, S. Sword-Fehlberg, A. Marchionni, T. Wongjirad, J. Jan de Vries, K. Bhattacharya, S. Söldner-Rembold, G. T. Garvey, H. Jostlein, I. Kreslo, Thomas Strauss, V. Meddage, A. Bhat, M. E. Convery, J. Asaadi, S. Gollapinni, D. Cianci, Chao Zhang, Z. Pavlovic, L.E. Yates, W. G. Seligman, J. Ho, C. James, H. S. Chen, Yi Chen, G. Pulliam, A. P. Furmanski, J. Sinclair, V. Papavassiliou, Colin Hill, J. Joshi, M. Kirby, J. I. Crespo-Anadón, M. Mooney, M. Soderberg, Andrew Blake, G. B. Mills, W. Foreman, V. Paolone, D. Goeldi, J. L. Raaf, D. W. Schmitz, Eliahu Cohen, S. Wolbers, J. Zennamo, M. Ross-Lonergan, M. Luethi, J. Hewes, Michael T. Murphy, B. Russell, T. Yang, D. Kaleko, Janet Conrad, Martin Auger, Afroditi Papadopoulou, C. Rudolf von Rohr, K. Wierman, Or Hen, R. Grosso, M. Bass, N. Tagg, Xiaohui Qian, H. Y. Wei, L. Escudero Sanchez, B. Lundberg, G.D. Barr, B. Baller, A. Mastbaum, Z. Williams, D. Caratelli, A. Hackenburg, E. Gramellini, B. T. Fleming, A. Schukraft, S. Lockwitz, J. St. John, C. Barnes, C. Adams, A. Rafique, S.R. Soleti, L. Cooper-Troendle, V. Genty, B. Viren, J. Mousseau, W. Van De Pontseele, T. A. Bolton, Y. T. Tsai, L. Camilleri, S. Balasubramanian, A. Lister, R. Castillo Fernandez, M. H. Shaevitz, Ornella Palamara, R. A. Johnson, P. M. Hamilton, Giuseppe Benedetto Cerati, J. Esquivel, W. C. Louis, L.S. Rochester, T. L. Usher, Panagiotis Spentzouris, J. Moon, S. A. Dytman, T. Miceli, R. G. Van de Water, Vishvas Pandey, J. A. Nowak, M. A. Thomson, D. Naples, Kazuhiro Terao, E. Piasetzky, M. Bishai, Marc Weber, E.L. Snider, T. Kobilarcik, Yichen Li, William Tang, and M. Toups

Subjects
Physics, Time projection chamber, Muon, Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous), Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, 01 natural sciences, Nuclear physics, 0103 physical sciences, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Muon neutrino, Fermilab, Neutrino, 010306 general physics, Engineering (miscellaneous), Charged current, Lepton, Event generator
Abstract

We measure a large set of observables in inclusive charged current muon neutrino scattering on argon with the MicroBooNE liquid argon time projection chamber operating at Fermilab. We evaluate three neutrino interaction models based on the widely used GENIE event generator using these observables. The measurement uses a data set consisting of neutrino interactions with a final state muon candidate fully contained within the MicroBooNE detector. These data were collected in 2016 with the Fermilab Booster Neutrino Beam, which has an average neutrino energy of $$800~\hbox {MeV}$$ 800 MeV , using an exposure corresponding to $$ 5.0\times 10^{19}$$ 5.0 × 10 19 protons-on-target. The analysis employs fully automatic event selection and charged particle track reconstruction and uses a data-driven technique to separate neutrino interactions from cosmic ray background events. We find that GENIE models consistently describe the shapes of a large number of kinematic distributions for fixed observed multiplicity.

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2019
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18. The continuous readout stream of the MicroBooNE liquid argon time projection chamber for detection of supernova burst neutrinos

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B.T. Fleming, W. Q. Gu, R. S. Fitzpatrick, Chao Zhang, R. Dorrill, N. McConkey, A. Marchionni, K. Mason, J. Mills, Giuseppe Benedetto Cerati, Andrew Smith, K. E. Duffy, O. Benevides Rodrigues, Xin Qian, S. Tufanli, L. Rochester, D. Devitt, I. Kreslo, Y.-J. Jwa, S. Berkman, C. Barnes, A. Rafique, A. Navrer-Agasson, M. Kirby, T. A. Mohayai, P. M. Hamilton, R. Castillo Fernandez, Ornella Palamara, R. A. Johnson, D. Cianci, Panagiotis Spentzouris, L. Ren, J. Rodriguez Rondon, Yi Chen, L. Bathe-Peters, L.E. Yates, B. Eberly, N. Foppiani, C. Mariani, S. F. Pate, K. Mistry, E. D. Hall, J. Moon, John Evans, W. C. Louis, H. Greenlee, J. Sinclair, J. Jan de Vries, J. I. Crespo-Anadón, J. Anthony, Michael T. Murphy, W. Ketchum, T. Usher, B. Baller, Steven Gardiner, I. Lepetic, Veljko Radeka, R. Sharankova, G. Karagiorgi, P. Nienaber, M. Soderberg, I. Ponce-Pinto, K. Sutton, B. Kirby, B. Viren, C. D. Moore, A. F. Moor, J. St. John, A. Schukraft, D. W. Schmitz, V. Paolone, D. Lorca, R. Guenette, K. Li, S. A. Dytman, M. Wospakrik, J. Mousseau, G. Scanavini, V. Meddage, O. Goodwin, C. James, E. Gramellini, V. Papavassiliou, M. Ross-Lonergan, M. Mooney, Avi Ashkenazi, G. P. Zeller, M. Reggiani-Guzzo, M. Stancari, J. L. Raaf, Or Hen, R. G. Van de Water, Andrew Blake, C. Thorpe, Y.-T. Tsai, T. Mettler, John Marshall, P. Abratenko, M. Rosenberg, R. Diurba, N. Tagg, J. H. Jo, Z. Williams, G.D. Barr, M. H. Shaevitz, I. Caro Terrazas, A. P. Furmanski, Patrick Green, L. Jiang, D. Caratelli, A.A. Fadeeva, D. Porzio, F. Cavanna, A. Mastbaum, E.-C. Huang, J. A. Nowak, E. Church, A. Bhat, T. A. Bolton, D. Franco, L. Camilleri, S. Söldner-Rembold, Janet Conrad, Wei Wu, M. Del Tutto, Xiaolu Ji, X. Luo, Z. Pavlovic, L. Cooper-Troendle, A. M. Szelc, A. Bhanderi, Antonio Ereditato, S. Sword-Fehlberg, Marc Weber, D. Garcia-Gamez, R. T. Thornton, Thomas Strauss, B. R. Littlejohn, H. E. Rogers, D. Naples, Kazuhiro Terao, D. A. Martinez Caicedo, A. Paudel, E. Piasetzky, J. Asaadi, Kate C. Miller, T. Yang, V. Basque, S. Prince, G. A. Horton-Smith, M. Alrashed, G. Yarbrough, R. An, P. Guzowski, R. Itay, N. Kamp, D. Marsden, M. A. Uchida, Yichen Li, William Tang, S. Marcocci, M. Toups, S. Balasubramanian, M. Bishai, Eliahu Cohen, J. Martín-Albo, E.L. Snider, M. E. Convery, T. Kobilarcik, A. Hourlier, T. Wongjirad, R. LaZur, J. Spitz, S. Gollapinni, A. Mogan, R. K. Neely, L. Gu, B. Russell, Afroditi Papadopoulou, H. Y. Wei, L. Escudero Sanchez, L. Domine, J. Zennamo, W. Van De Pontseele, G. A. Fiorentini Aguirre, and S. Wolbers

Subjects
Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, 01 natural sciences, High Energy Physics - Experiment, 030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Optics, 0103 physical sciences, Instrumentation, Mathematical Physics, Physics, Lossless compression, Time projection chamber, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Supernova Early Warning System, business.industry, Detector, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), Supernova, Neutrino, business, Zero suppression, Data reduction
Abstract

The MicroBooNE continuous readout stream is a parallel readout of the MicroBooNE liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) which enables detection of non-beam events such as those from a supernova neutrino burst. The low energies of the supernova neutrinos and the intense cosmic-ray background flux due to the near-surface detector location makes triggering on these events very challenging. Instead, MicroBooNE relies on a delayed trigger generated by SNEWS (the Supernova Early Warning System) for detecting supernova neutrinos. The continuous readout of the LArTPC generates large data volumes, and requires the use of real-time compression algorithms (zero suppression and Huffman compression) implemented in an FPGA (field-programmable gate array) in the readout electronics. We present the results of the optimization of the data reduction algorithms, and their operational performance. To demonstrate the capability of the continuous stream to detect low-energy electrons, a sample of Michel electrons from stopping cosmic-ray muons is reconstructed and compared to a similar sample from the lossless triggered readout stream., Comment: 30 pages, 21 figures

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2021
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19. Ionization electron signal processing in single phase LArTPCs: Part II: Data/simulation comparison and performance in MicroBooNE

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J. Joshi, B. Russell, J. Hewes, S. Marcocci, M. Bass, E. Church, N. Tagg, D.A. Wickremasinghe, B. Baller, J. L. Raaf, K. Bhattacharya, G.D. Barr, M. Dolce, D. Kaleko, D. Caratelli, G. Karagiorgi, P. Nienaber, K. Woodruff, G. Pulliam, Y.-T. Tsai, J. J. Evans, S. Lockwitz, A. Hackenburg, C. Barnes, A. Rafique, M. Ross-Lonergan, G. P. Zeller, T. Mettler, John Marshall, G. B. Mills, Andrew Smith, G. Yarbrough, I. Kreslo, Yi Chen, T. Usher, M. Del Tutto, D. Porzio, D. Devitt, Afroditi Papadopoulou, W. Ketchum, Michael T. Murphy, A. Bhat, B. R. Littlejohn, H. S. Chen, S. Tufanli, Alejandro Diaz, S. Söldner-Rembold, T. Wongjirad, Antonio Ereditato, E. Gramellini, R. An, R. Castillo Fernandez, R. Carr, M. Bishai, A.A. Fadeeva, C.D. Moore, F. Bay, D. A. Martinez Caicedo, J. Jan de Vries, Ornella Palamara, R. A. Johnson, Veljko Radeka, J. Asaadi, L. Camilleri, C. Rudolf von Rohr, R. Murrells, S. Balasubramanian, A. Lister, D. Garcia-Gamez, H. Y. Wei, L. Escudero Sanchez, Andrew Blake, L. Jiang, A. Mastbaum, D. Lorca, D. Cianci, X. Luo, Yang Li, E.-C. Huang, Xin Qian, S. F. Pate, A. Mogan, W. Foreman, V. Paolone, M. Luethi, L. Rochester, Marc Weber, C. Mariani, S.R. Soleti, B. Viren, C. Adams, J. Mousseau, M. Soderberg, A. Marchionni, K. Wierman, P. Guzowski, L. Cooper-Troendle, H. Greenlee, T. Yang, V. Meddage, W. Van De Pontseele, B.T. Fleming, Or Hen, C. James, Z. Williams, V. Papavassiliou, A. Schukraft, M. Mooney, K. Sutton, B. Kirby, A. P. Furmanski, A. Hourlier, T. Bolton, Y.-J. Jwa, Bo Yu, Z. Pavlovic, S. Wolbers, B. Lundberg, J. St. John, A. M. Szelc, S. Sword-Fehlberg, Thomas Strauss, E. Cohen, Colin Hill, P. M. Hamilton, B. Eberly, J. Anthony, D. Naples, E.L. Snider, W. C. Louis, S. Dytman, M. Toups, V. Genty, Michael H Kirby, M. H. Shaevitz, I. Caro Terrazas, Giuseppe Benedetto Cerati, M. E. Convery, T. Kobilarcik, C. Zhang, R. Grosso, W. G. Seligman, D. Goeldi, J. Zennamo, G. H. Collin, G. A. Horton-Smith, L.E. Yates, J. Ho, J. Sinclair, J. I. Crespo-Anadón, J. Esquivel, Janet Conrad, Panagiotis Spentzouris, D. W. Schmitz, Martin Auger, J. Moon, T. Miceli, R. G. Van de Water, Vishvas Pandey, W. Tang, J. A. Nowak, G. T. Garvey, H. Jostlein, R. Guenette, S. Gollapinni, M. A. Thomson, Kazuhiro Terao, F. Cavanna, E. Piasetzky, J. Spitz, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics

Subjects
Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, FOS: Physical sciences, Cryogenics, Electron, 01 natural sciences, High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), Optics, Ionization, 0103 physical sciences, Calibration, Data processing Methods, Neutrino detectors, Performance of High Energy Physics Detectors, Time projection Chambers (TPC), Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex), 010306 general physics, Nuclear Experiment, Instrumentation, Mathematical Physics, Physics, Signal processing, Time projection chamber, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Noise (signal processing), business.industry, Detector, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), business
Abstract

The single-phase liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) provides a large amount of detailed information in the form of fine-grained drifted ionization charge from particle traces. To fully utilize this information, the deposited charge must be accurately extracted from the raw digitized waveforms via a robust signal processing chain. Enabled by the ultra-low noise levels associated with cryogenic electronics in the MicroBooNE detector, the precise extraction of ionization charge from the induction wire planes in a single-phase LArTPC is qualitatively demonstrated on MicroBooNE data with event display images, and quantitatively demonstrated via waveform-level and track-level metrics. Improved performance of induction plane calorimetry is demonstrated through the agreement of extracted ionization charge measurements across different wire planes for various event topologies. In addition to the comprehensive waveform-level comparison of data and simulation, a calibration of the cryogenic electronics response is presented and solutions to various MicroBooNE-specific TPC issues are discussed. This work presents an important improvement in LArTPC signal processing, the foundation of reconstruction and therefore physics analyses in MicroBooNE., Comment: 54 pages, 36 figures; the first part of this work can be found at arXiv:1802.08709

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2018
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20. First Measurement of η Meson Production in Neutrino Interactions on Argon with MicroBooNE.

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Abratenko P, Alterkait O, Andrade Aldana D, Anthony J, Arellano L, Asaadi J, Ashkenazi A, Balasubramanian S, Baller B, Barr G, Barrow J, Basque V, Benevides Rodrigues O, Berkman S, Bhanderi A, Bhat A, Bhattacharya M, Bishai M, Blake A, Bogart B, Bolton T, Book JY, Camilleri L, Cao Y, Caratelli D, Caro Terrazas I, Cavanna F, Cerati G, Chen Y, Conrad JM, Convery M, Cooper-Troendle L, Crespo-Anadón JI, Del Tutto M, Dennis SR, Detje P, Devitt A, Diurba R, Djurcic Z, Dorrill R, Duffy K, Dytman S, Eberly B, Englezos P, Ereditato A, Evans JJ, Fine R, Finnerud OG, Foreman W, Fleming BT, Foppiani N, Franco D, Furmanski AP, Garcia-Gamez D, Gardiner S, Ge G, Gollapinni S, Goodwin O, Gramellini E, Green P, Greenlee H, Gu W, Guenette R, Guzowski P, Hagaman L, Hen O, Hicks R, Hilgenberg C, Horton-Smith GA, Imani Z, Irwin B, Itay R, James C, Ji X, Jiang L, Jo JH, Johnson RA, Jwa YJ, Kalra D, Kamp N, Karagiorgi G, Ketchum W, Kirby M, Kobilarcik T, Kreslo I, Leibovitch MB, Lepetic I, Li JY, Li K, Li Y, Lin K, Littlejohn BR, Louis WC, Luo X, Mariani C, Marsden D, Marshall J, Martinez N, Martinez Caicedo DA, Mason K, Mastbaum A, McConkey N, Meddage V, Miller K, Mills J, Mogan A, Mohayai T, Mooney M, Moor AF, Moore CD, Mora Lepin L, Mulleriababu S, Naples D, Navrer-Agasson A, Nayak N, Nebot-Guinot M, Nowak J, Oza N, Palamara O, Pallat N, Paolone V, Papadopoulou A, Papavassiliou V, Parkinson HB, Pate SF, Patel N, Pavlovic Z, Piasetzky E, Ponce-Pinto ID, Pophale I, Prince S, Qian X, Raaf JL, Radeka V, Rafique A, Reggiani-Guzzo M, Ren L, Rochester L, Rodriguez Rondon J, Rosenberg M, Ross-Lonergan M, Rudolf von Rohr C, Scanavini G, Schmitz DW, Schukraft A, Seligman W, Shaevitz MH, Sharankova R, Shi J, Snider EL, Soderberg M, Söldner-Rembold S, Spitz J, Stancari M, John JS, Strauss T, Sword-Fehlberg S, Szelc AM, Tang W, Taniuchi N, Terao K, Thorpe C, Torbunov D, Totani D, Toups M, Tsai YT, Tyler J, Uchida MA, Usher T, Viren B, Weber M, Wei H, White AJ, Williams Z, Wolbers S, Wongjirad T, Wospakrik M, Wresilo K, Wright N, Wu W, Yandel E, Yang T, Yates LE, Yu HW, Zeller GP, Zennamo J, and Zhang C

Abstract

We present a measurement of η production from neutrino interactions on argon with the MicroBooNE detector. The modeling of resonant neutrino interactions on argon is a critical aspect of the neutrino oscillation physics program being carried out by the DUNE and Short Baseline Neutrino programs. η production in neutrino interactions provides a powerful new probe of resonant interactions, complementary to pion channels, and is particularly suited to the study of higher-order resonances beyond the Δ(1232). We measure a flux-integrated cross section for neutrino-induced η production on argon of 3.22±0.84(stat)±0.86(syst) 10^{-41}  cm^{2}/nucleon. By demonstrating the successful reconstruction of the two photons resulting from η production, this analysis enables a novel calibration technique for electromagnetic showers in GeV accelerator neutrino experiments.

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2024
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21. First Double-Differential Measurement of Kinematic Imbalance in Neutrino Interactions with the MicroBooNE Detector.

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Abratenko P, Alterkait O, Andrade Aldana D, Anthony J, Arellano L, Asaadi J, Ashkenazi A, Balasubramanian S, Baller B, Barr G, Barrow J, Basque V, Benevides Rodrigues O, Berkman S, Bhanderi A, Bhattacharya M, Bishai M, Blake A, Bogart B, Bolton T, Book JY, Camilleri L, Caratelli D, Caro Terrazas I, Cavanna F, Cerati G, Chen Y, Cohen EO, Conrad JM, Convery M, Cooper-Troendle L, Crespo-Anadón JI, Del Tutto M, Dennis SR, Detje P, Devitt A, Diurba R, Djurcic Z, Dorrill R, Duffy K, Dytman S, Eberly B, Ereditato A, Evans JJ, Fine R, Finnerud OG, Foreman W, Fleming BT, Foppiani N, Franco D, Furmanski AP, Garcia-Gamez D, Gardiner S, Ge G, Gollapinni S, Goodwin O, Gramellini E, Green P, Greenlee H, Gu W, Guenette R, Guzowski P, Hagaman L, Hen O, Hicks R, Hilgenberg C, Horton-Smith GA, Irwin B, Itay R, James C, Ji X, Jiang L, Jo JH, Johnson RA, Jwa YJ, Kalra D, Kamp N, Karagiorgi G, Ketchum W, Kirby M, Kobilarcik T, Kreslo I, Leibovitch MB, Lepetic I, Li JY, Li K, Li Y, Lin K, Littlejohn BR, Louis WC, Luo X, Mariani C, Marsden D, Marshall J, Martinez N, Martinez Caicedo DA, Mason K, Mastbaum A, McConkey N, Meddage V, Miller K, Mills J, Mogan A, Mohayai T, Mooney M, Moor AF, Moore CD, Mora Lepin L, Mousseau J, Mulleriababu S, Naples D, Navrer-Agasson A, Nayak N, Nebot-Guinot M, Nowak J, Oza N, Palamara O, Pallat N, Paolone V, Papadopoulou A, Papavassiliou V, Parkinson HB, Pate SF, Patel N, Pavlovic Z, Piasetzky E, Ponce-Pinto ID, Pophale I, Prince S, Qian X, Raaf JL, Radeka V, Rafique A, Reggiani-Guzzo M, Ren L, Rochester L, Rodriguez Rondon J, Rosenberg M, Ross-Lonergan M, Rudolf von Rohr C, Scanavini G, Schmitz DW, Schukraft A, Seligman W, Shaevitz MH, Sharankova R, Shi J, Snider EL, Soderberg M, Söldner-Rembold S, Spitz J, Stancari M, John JS, Strauss T, Sword-Fehlberg S, Szelc AM, Tang W, Taniuchi N, Terao K, Thorpe C, Torbunov D, Totani D, Toups M, Tsai YT, Tyler J, Uchida MA, Usher T, Viren B, Weber M, Wei H, White AJ, Williams Z, Wolbers S, Wongjirad T, Wospakrik M, Wresilo K, Wright N, Wu W, Yandel E, Yang T, Yates LE, Yu HW, Zeller GP, Zennamo J, and Zhang C

Abstract

We report the first measurement of flux-integrated double-differential quasielasticlike neutrino-argon cross sections, which have been made using the Booster Neutrino Beam and the MicroBooNE detector at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. The data are presented as a function of kinematic imbalance variables which are sensitive to nuclear ground-state distributions and hadronic reinteraction processes. We find that the measured cross sections in different phase-space regions are sensitive to different nuclear effects. Therefore, they enable the impact of specific nuclear effects on the neutrino-nucleus interaction to be isolated more completely than was possible using previous single-differential cross section measurements. Our results provide precision data to help test and improve neutrino-nucleus interaction models. They further support ongoing neutrino-oscillation studies by establishing phase-space regions where precise reaction modeling has already been achieved.

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2023
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22. First Measurement of Quasielastic Λ Baryon Production in Muon Antineutrino Interactions in the MicroBooNE Detector.

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Abratenko P, Andrade Aldana D, Anthony J, Arellano L, Asaadi J, Ashkenazi A, Balasubramanian S, Baller B, Barr G, Barrow J, Basque V, Benevides Rodrigues O, Berkman S, Bhanderi A, Bhattacharya M, Bishai M, Blake A, Bogart B, Bolton T, Book JY, Camilleri L, Caratelli D, Caro Terrazas I, Cavanna F, Cerati G, Chen Y, Conrad JM, Convery M, Cooper-Troendle L, Crespo-Anadón JI, Del Tutto M, Dennis SR, Detje P, Devitt A, Diurba R, Djurcic Z, Dorrill R, Duffy K, Dytman S, Eberly B, Ereditato A, Evans JJ, Fine R, Finnerud OG, Foreman W, Fleming BT, Foppiani N, Franco D, Furmanski AP, Garcia-Gamez D, Gardiner S, Ge G, Gollapinni S, Goodwin O, Gramellini E, Green P, Greenlee H, Gu W, Guenette R, Guzowski P, Hagaman L, Hen O, Hicks R, Hilgenberg C, Horton-Smith GA, Irwin B, Itay R, James C, Ji X, Jiang L, Jo JH, Johnson RA, Jwa YJ, Kalra D, Kamp N, Karagiorgi G, Ketchum W, Kirby M, Kobilarcik T, Kreslo I, Leibovitch MB, Lepetic I, Li JY, Li K, Li Y, Lin K, Littlejohn BR, Louis WC, Luo X, Mariani C, Marsden D, Marshall J, Martinez N, Martinez Caicedo DA, Mason K, Mastbaum A, McConkey N, Meddage V, Miller K, Mills J, Mogan A, Mohayai T, Mooney M, Moor AF, Moore CD, Mora Lepin L, Mousseau J, Mulleriababu S, Naples D, Navrer-Agasson A, Nayak N, Nebot-Guinot M, Nowak J, Nunes M, Oza N, Palamara O, Pallat N, Paolone V, Papadopoulou A, Papavassiliou V, Parkinson HB, Pate SF, Patel N, Pavlovic Z, Piasetzky E, Ponce-Pinto ID, Pophale I, Prince S, Qian X, Raaf JL, Radeka V, Rafique A, Reggiani-Guzzo M, Ren L, Rochester L, Rodriguez Rondon J, Rosenberg M, Ross-Lonergan M, Rudolf von Rohr C, Scanavini G, Schmitz DW, Schukraft A, Seligman W, Shaevitz MH, Sharankova R, Shi J, Snider EL, Soderberg M, Söldner-Rembold S, Spitz J, Stancari M, John JS, Strauss T, Sword-Fehlberg S, Szelc AM, Tang W, Taniuchi N, Terao K, Thorpe C, Torbunov D, Totani D, Toups M, Tsai YT, Tyler J, Uchida MA, Usher T, Viren B, Weber M, Wei H, White AJ, Williams Z, Wolbers S, Wongjirad T, Wospakrik M, Wresilo K, Wright N, Wu W, Yandel E, Yang T, Yates LE, Yu HW, Zeller GP, Zennamo J, and Zhang C

Subjects
Protons, Computer Simulation, Monte Carlo Method, Mesons
Abstract

We present the first measurement of the cross section of Cabibbo-suppressed Λ baryon production, using data collected with the MicroBooNE detector when exposed to the neutrinos from the main injector beam at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. The data analyzed correspond to 2.2×10^{20} protons on target running in neutrino mode, and 4.9×10^{20} protons on target running in anti-neutrino mode. An automated selection is combined with hand scanning, with the former identifying five candidate Λ production events when the signal was unblinded, consistent with the GENIE prediction of 5.3±1.1 events. Several scanners were employed, selecting between three and five events, compared with a prediction from a blinded Monte Carlo simulation study of 3.7±1.0 events. Restricting the phase space to only include Λ baryons that decay above MicroBooNE's detection thresholds, we obtain a flux averaged cross section of 2.0_{-1.7}^{+2.2}×10^{-40}  cm^{2}/Ar, where statistical and systematic uncertainties are combined.

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2023
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23. First Constraints on Light Sterile Neutrino Oscillations from Combined Appearance and Disappearance Searches with the MicroBooNE Detector.

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Abratenko P, Andrade Aldana D, Anthony J, Arellano L, Asaadi J, Ashkenazi A, Balasubramanian S, Baller B, Barr G, Barrow J, Basque V, Bathe-Peters L, Benevides Rodrigues O, Berkman S, Bhanderi A, Bhattacharya M, Bishai M, Blake A, Bogart B, Bolton T, Book JY, Camilleri L, Caratelli D, Caro Terrazas I, Cavanna F, Cerati G, Chen Y, Conrad JM, Convery M, Cooper-Troendle L, Crespo-Anadón JI, Del Tutto M, Dennis SR, Detje P, Devitt A, Diurba R, Dorrill R, Duffy K, Dytman S, Eberly B, Ereditato A, Evans JJ, Fine R, Finnerud OG, Foreman W, Fleming BT, Foppiani N, Franco D, Furmanski AP, Garcia-Gamez D, Gardiner S, Ge G, Gollapinni S, Goodwin O, Gramellini E, Green P, Greenlee H, Gu W, Guenette R, Guzowski P, Hagaman L, Hen O, Hicks R, Hilgenberg C, Horton-Smith GA, Irwin B, Itay R, James C, Ji X, Jiang L, Jo JH, Johnson RA, Jwa YJ, Kalra D, Kamp N, Karagiorgi G, Ketchum W, Kirby M, Kobilarcik T, Kreslo I, Leibovitch MB, Lepetic I, Li JY, Li K, Li Y, Lin K, Littlejohn BR, Louis WC, Luo X, Manivannan K, Mariani C, Marsden D, Marshall J, Martinez N, Martinez Caicedo DA, Mason K, Mastbaum A, McConkey N, Meddage V, Miller K, Mills J, Mogan A, Mohayai T, Mooney M, Moor AF, Moore CD, Mora Lepin L, Mousseau J, Mulleriababu S, Naples D, Navrer-Agasson A, Nayak N, Nebot-Guinot M, Nowak J, Nunes M, Oza N, Palamara O, Pallat N, Paolone V, Papadopoulou A, Papavassiliou V, Parkinson HB, Pate SF, Patel N, Pavlovic Z, Piasetzky E, Ponce-Pinto ID, Pophale I, Prince S, Qian X, Raaf JL, Radeka V, Reggiani-Guzzo M, Ren L, Rochester L, Rodriguez Rondon J, Rosenberg M, Ross-Lonergan M, Rudolf von Rohr C, Scanavini G, Schmitz DW, Schukraft A, Seligman W, Shaevitz MH, Sharankova R, Shi J, Smith A, Snider EL, Soderberg M, Söldner-Rembold S, Spitz J, Stancari M, St John J, Strauss T, Sword-Fehlberg S, Szelc AM, Tang W, Taniuchi N, Terao K, Thorpe C, Torbunov D, Totani D, Toups M, Tsai YT, Tyler J, Uchida MA, Usher T, Viren B, Weber M, Wei H, White AJ, Williams Z, Wolbers S, Wongjirad T, Wospakrik M, Wresilo K, Wright N, Wu W, Yandel E, Yang T, Yates LE, Yu HW, Zeller GP, Zennamo J, and Zhang C

Abstract

We present a search for eV-scale sterile neutrino oscillations in the MicroBooNE liquid argon detector, simultaneously considering all possible appearance and disappearance effects within the 3+1 active-to-sterile neutrino oscillation framework. We analyze the neutrino candidate events for the recent measurements of charged-current ν_{e} and ν_{μ} interactions in the MicroBooNE detector, using data corresponding to an exposure of 6.37×10^{20} protons on target from the Fermilab booster neutrino beam. We observe no evidence of light sterile neutrino oscillations and derive exclusion contours at the 95% confidence level in the plane of the mass-squared splitting Δm_{41}^{2} and the sterile neutrino mixing angles θ_{μe} and θ_{ee}, excluding part of the parameter space allowed by experimental anomalies. Cancellation of ν_{e} appearance and ν_{e} disappearance effects due to the full 3+1 treatment of the analysis leads to a degeneracy when determining the oscillation parameters, which is discussed in this Letter and will be addressed by future analyses.

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2023
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24. Search for an Excess of Electron Neutrino Interactions in MicroBooNE Using Multiple Final-State Topologies.

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Abratenko P, An R, Anthony J, Arellano L, Asaadi J, Ashkenazi A, Balasubramanian S, Baller B, Barnes C, Barr G, Basque V, Bathe-Peters L, Benevides Rodrigues O, Berkman S, Bhanderi A, Bhat A, Bishai M, Blake A, Bolton T, Book JY, Camilleri L, Caratelli D, Caro Terrazas I, Cavanna F, Cerati G, Chen Y, Cianci D, Collin GH, Conrad JM, Convery M, Cooper-Troendle L, Crespo-Anadón JI, Del Tutto M, Dennis SR, Detje P, Devitt A, Diurba R, Dorrill R, Duffy K, Dytman S, Eberly B, Ereditato A, Escudero Sanchez L, Evans JJ, Fine R, Fiorentini Aguirre GA, Fitzpatrick RS, Fleming BT, Foppiani N, Franco D, Furmanski AP, Garcia-Gamez D, Gardiner S, Ge G, Genty V, Gollapinni S, Goodwin O, Gramellini E, Green P, Greenlee H, Gu W, Guenette R, Guzowski P, Hagaman L, Hen O, Hilgenberg C, Horton-Smith GA, Hourlier A, Itay R, James C, Ji X, Jiang L, Jo JH, Johnson RA, Jwa YJ, Kaleko D, Kalra D, Kamp N, Kaneshige N, Karagiorgi G, Ketchum W, Kirby M, Kobilarcik T, Kreslo I, LaZur R, Lepetic I, Li K, Li Y, Lin K, Lister A, Littlejohn BR, Louis WC, Luo X, Manivannan K, Mariani C, Marsden D, Marshall J, Martinez Caicedo DA, Mason K, Mastbaum A, McConkey N, Meddage V, Mettler T, Miller K, Mills J, Mistry K, Mogan A, Mohayai T, Moon J, Mooney M, Moor AF, Moore CD, Mora Lepin L, Mousseau J, Murphy M, Naples D, Navrer-Agasson A, Nebot-Guinot M, Neely RK, Newmark DA, Nowak J, Nunes M, Palamara O, Paolone V, Papadopoulou A, Papavassiliou V, Pate SF, Patel N, Paudel A, Pavlovic Z, Piasetzky E, Ponce-Pinto ID, Prince S, Qian X, Raaf JL, Radeka V, Rafique A, Reggiani-Guzzo M, Ren L, Rice LCJ, Rochester L, Rodriguez Rondon J, Rosenberg M, Ross-Lonergan M, Russell B, Scanavini G, Schmitz DW, Schukraft A, Seligman W, Shaevitz MH, Sharankova R, Shi J, Sinclair J, Smith A, Snider EL, Soderberg M, Söldner-Rembold S, Soleti SR, Spentzouris P, Spitz J, Stancari M, John JS, Strauss T, Sutton K, Sword-Fehlberg S, Szelc AM, Tang W, Terao K, Thomson M, Thorpe C, Totani D, Toups M, Tsai YT, Uchida MA, Usher T, Van De Pontseele W, Viren B, Weber M, Wei H, Williams Z, Wolbers S, Wongjirad T, Wospakrik M, Wresilo K, Wright N, Wu W, Yandel E, Yang T, Yarbrough G, Yates LE, Yu HW, Zeller GP, Zennamo J, and Zhang C

Abstract

We present a measurement of ν_{e} interactions from the Fermilab Booster Neutrino Beam using the MicroBooNE liquid argon time projection chamber to address the nature of the excess of low energy interactions observed by the MiniBooNE Collaboration. Three independent ν_{e} searches are performed across multiple single electron final states, including an exclusive search for two-body scattering events with a single proton, a semi-inclusive search for pionless events, and a fully inclusive search for events containing all hadronic final states. With differing signal topologies, statistics, backgrounds, reconstruction algorithms, and analysis approaches, the results are found to be either consistent with or modestly lower than the nominal ν_{e} rate expectations from the Booster Neutrino Beam and no excess of ν_{e} events is observed.

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2022
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25. First Measurement of Energy-Dependent Inclusive Muon Neutrino Charged-Current Cross Sections on Argon with the MicroBooNE Detector.

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Abratenko P, An R, Anthony J, Arellano L, Asaadi J, Ashkenazi A, Balasubramanian S, Baller B, Barnes C, Barr G, Basque V, Bathe-Peters L, Benevides Rodrigues O, Berkman S, Bhanderi A, Bhat A, Bishai M, Blake A, Bolton T, Book JY, Camilleri L, Caratelli D, Caro Terrazas I, Cavanna F, Cerati G, Chen Y, Cianci D, Conrad JM, Convery M, Cooper-Troendle L, Crespo-Anadón JI, Del Tutto M, Dennis SR, Detje P, Devitt A, Diurba R, Dorrill R, Duffy K, Dytman S, Eberly B, Ereditato A, Evans JJ, Fine R, Fiorentini Aguirre GA, Fitzpatrick RS, Fleming BT, Foppiani N, Franco D, Furmanski AP, Garcia-Gamez D, Gardiner S, Ge G, Gollapinni S, Goodwin O, Gramellini E, Green P, Greenlee H, Gu W, Guenette R, Guzowski P, Hagaman L, Hen O, Hilgenberg C, Horton-Smith GA, Hourlier A, Itay R, James C, Ji X, Jiang L, Jo JH, Johnson RA, Jwa YJ, Kalra D, Kamp N, Kaneshige N, Karagiorgi G, Ketchum W, Kirby M, Kobilarcik T, Kreslo I, Lepetic I, Li K, Li Y, Lin K, Littlejohn BR, Louis WC, Luo X, Manivannan K, Mariani C, Marsden D, Marshall J, Martinez Caicedo DA, Mason K, Mastbaum A, McConkey N, Meddage V, Mettler T, Miller K, Mills J, Mistry K, Mogan A, Mohayai T, Moon J, Mooney M, Moor AF, Moore CD, Mora Lepin L, Mousseau J, Murphy M, Naples D, Navrer-Agasson A, Nebot-Guinot M, Neely RK, Newmark DA, Nowak J, Nunes M, Palamara O, Paolone V, Papadopoulou A, Papavassiliou V, Pate SF, Patel N, Paudel A, Pavlovic Z, Piasetzky E, Ponce-Pinto ID, Prince S, Qian X, Raaf JL, Radeka V, Rafique A, Reggiani-Guzzo M, Ren L, Rice LCJ, Rochester L, Rodriguez Rondon J, Rosenberg M, Ross-Lonergan M, Scanavini G, Schmitz DW, Schukraft A, Seligman W, Shaevitz MH, Sharankova R, Shi J, Sinclair J, Smith A, Snider EL, Soderberg M, Söldner-Rembold S, Spentzouris P, Spitz J, Stancari M, John JS, Strauss T, Sutton K, Sword-Fehlberg S, Szelc AM, Tang W, Terao K, Thorpe C, Totani D, Toups M, Tsai YT, Uchida MA, Usher T, Van De Pontseele W, Viren B, Weber M, Wei H, Williams Z, Wolbers S, Wongjirad T, Wospakrik M, Wresilo K, Wright N, Wu W, Yandel E, Yang T, Yarbrough G, Yates LE, Yu HW, Zeller GP, Zennamo J, and Zhang C

Abstract

We report a measurement of the energy-dependent total charged-current cross section σ(E_{ν}) for inclusive muon neutrinos scattering on argon, as well as measurements of flux-averaged differential cross sections as a function of muon energy and hadronic energy transfer (ν). Data corresponding to 5.3×10^{19} protons on target of exposure were collected using the MicroBooNE liquid argon time projection chamber located in the Fermilab booster neutrino beam with a mean neutrino energy of approximately 0.8 GeV. The mapping between the true neutrino energy E_{ν} and reconstructed neutrino energy E_{ν}^{rec} and between the energy transfer ν and reconstructed hadronic energy E_{had}^{rec} are validated by comparing the data and Monte Carlo (MC) predictions. In particular, the modeling of the missing hadronic energy and its associated uncertainties are verified by a new method that compares the E_{had}^{rec} distributions between data and a MC prediction after constraining the reconstructed muon kinematic distributions, energy, and polar angle to those of data. The success of this validation gives confidence that the missing energy in the MicroBooNE detector is well modeled and underpins first-time measurements of both the total cross section σ(E_{ν}) and the differential cross section dσ/dν on argon.

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2022
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26. Search for Neutrino-Induced Neutral-Current Δ Radiative Decay in MicroBooNE and a First Test of the MiniBooNE Low Energy Excess under a Single-Photon Hypothesis.

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Abratenko P, An R, Anthony J, Arellano L, Asaadi J, Ashkenazi A, Balasubramanian S, Baller B, Barnes C, Barr G, Basque V, Bathe-Peters L, Benevides Rodrigues O, Berkman S, Bhanderi A, Bhat A, Bishai M, Blake A, Bolton T, Book JY, Camilleri L, Caratelli D, Caro Terrazas I, Castillo Fernandez R, Cavanna F, Cerati G, Chen Y, Cianci D, Conrad JM, Convery M, Cooper-Troendle L, Crespo-Anadón JI, Del Tutto M, Dennis SR, Detje P, Devitt A, Diurba R, Dorrill R, Duffy K, Dytman S, Eberly B, Ereditato A, Evans JJ, Fine R, Fiorentini Aguirre GA, Fitzpatrick RS, Fleming BT, Foppiani N, Franco D, Furmanski AP, Garcia-Gamez D, Gardiner S, Ge G, Gollapinni S, Goodwin O, Gramellini E, Green P, Greenlee H, Gu W, Guenette R, Guzowski P, Hagaman L, Hen O, Hilgenberg C, Horton-Smith GA, Hourlier A, Itay R, James C, Ji X, Jiang L, Jo JH, Johnson RA, Jwa YJ, Kalra D, Kamp N, Kaneshige N, Karagiorgi G, Ketchum W, Kirby M, Kobilarcik T, Kreslo I, LaZur R, Lepetic I, Li K, Li Y, Lin K, Littlejohn BR, Louis WC, Luo X, Manivannan K, Mariani C, Marsden D, Marshall J, Martinez Caicedo DA, Mason K, Mastbaum A, McConkey N, Meddage V, Mettler T, Miller K, Mills J, Mistry K, Mogan A, Mohayai T, Moon J, Mooney M, Moor AF, Moore CD, Mora Lepin L, Mousseau J, Murphy M, Murrells R, Naples D, Navrer-Agasson A, Nebot-Guinot M, Neely RK, Newmark DA, Nowak J, Nunes M, Palamara O, Paolone V, Papadopoulou A, Papavassiliou V, Pate SF, Patel N, Paudel A, Pavlovic Z, Piasetzky E, Ponce-Pinto ID, Prince S, Qian X, Raaf JL, Radeka V, Rafique A, Reggiani-Guzzo M, Ren L, Rice LCJ, Rochester L, Rodriguez Rondon J, Rosenberg M, Ross-Lonergan M, Scanavini G, Schmitz DW, Schukraft A, Seligman W, Shaevitz MH, Sharankova R, Shi J, Sinclair J, Smith A, Snider EL, Soderberg M, Söldner-Rembold S, Spentzouris P, Spitz J, Stancari M, John JS, Strauss T, Sutton K, Sword-Fehlberg S, Szelc AM, Tang W, Terao K, Thorpe C, Totani D, Toups M, Tsai YT, Uchida MA, Usher T, Van De Pontseele W, Viren B, Weber M, Wei H, Williams Z, Wolbers S, Wongjirad T, Wospakrik M, Wresilo K, Wright N, Wu W, Yandel E, Yang T, Yarbrough G, Yates LE, Yu HW, Zeller GP, Zennamo J, and Zhang C

Abstract

We report results from a search for neutrino-induced neutral current (NC) resonant Δ(1232) baryon production followed by Δ radiative decay, with a ⟨0.8⟩  GeV neutrino beam. Data corresponding to MicroBooNE's first three years of operations (6.80×10^{20} protons on target) are used to select single-photon events with one or zero protons and without charged leptons in the final state (1γ1p and 1γ0p, respectively). The background is constrained via an in situ high-purity measurement of NC π^{0} events, made possible via dedicated 2γ1p and 2γ0p selections. A total of 16 and 153 events are observed for the 1γ1p and 1γ0p selections, respectively, compared to a constrained background prediction of 20.5±3.65(syst) and 145.1±13.8(syst) events. The data lead to a bound on an anomalous enhancement of the normalization of NC Δ radiative decay of less than 2.3 times the predicted nominal rate for this process at the 90% confidence level (C.L.). The measurement disfavors a candidate photon interpretation of the MiniBooNE low-energy excess as a factor of 3.18 times the nominal NC Δ radiative decay rate at the 94.8% C.L., in favor of the nominal prediction, and represents a greater than 50-fold improvement over the world's best limit on single-photon production in NC interactions in the sub-GeV neutrino energy range.

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2022
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27. Search for a Higgs Portal Scalar Decaying to Electron-Positron Pairs in the MicroBooNE Detector.

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Abratenko P, An R, Anthony J, Asaadi J, Ashkenazi A, Balasubramanian S, Baller B, Barnes C, Barr G, Basque V, Bathe-Peters L, Benevides Rodrigues O, Berkman S, Bhanderi A, Bhat A, Bishai M, Blake A, Bolton T, Book JY, Camilleri L, Caratelli D, Caro Terrazas I, Castillo Fernandez R, Cavanna F, Cerati G, Chen Y, Cianci D, Conrad JM, Convery M, Cooper-Troendle L, Crespo-Anadón JI, Del Tutto M, Dennis SR, Devitt D, Diurba R, Dorrill R, Duffy K, Dytman S, Eberly B, Ereditato A, Evans JJ, Fine R, Fiorentini Aguirre GA, Fitzpatrick RS, Fleming BT, Foppiani N, Franco D, Furmanski AP, Garcia-Gamez D, Gardiner S, Ge G, Gollapinni S, Goodwin O, Gramellini E, Green P, Greenlee H, Gu W, Guenette R, Guzowski P, Hagaman L, Hall E, Hen O, Horton-Smith GA, Hourlier A, Itay R, James C, Ji X, Jiang L, Jo JH, Johnson RA, Jwa YJ, Kamp N, Kaneshige N, Karagiorgi G, Ketchum W, Kirby M, Kobilarcik T, Kreslo I, LaZur R, Lepetic I, Li K, Li Y, Lin K, Littlejohn BR, Louis WC, Luo X, Manivannan K, Mariani C, Marsden D, Marshall J, Martinez Caicedo DA, Mason K, Mastbaum A, McConkey N, Meddage V, Mettler T, Miller K, Mills J, Mistry K, Mogan A, Mohayai T, Moon J, Mooney M, Moor AF, Moore CD, Mora Lepin L, Mousseau J, Murphy M, Naples D, Navrer-Agasson A, Neely RK, Nowak J, Nunes M, Palamara O, Paolone V, Papadopoulou A, Papavassiliou V, Pate SF, Paudel A, Pavlovic Z, Piasetzky E, Ponce-Pinto ID, Prince S, Qian X, Raaf JL, Radeka V, Rafique A, Reggiani-Guzzo M, Ren L, Rice LCJ, Rochester L, Rodriguez Rondon J, Rogers HE, Rosenberg M, Ross-Lonergan M, Scanavini G, Schmitz DW, Schukraft A, Seligman W, Shaevitz MH, Sharankova R, Shi J, Siegel H, Sinclair J, Smith A, Snider EL, Soderberg M, Söldner-Rembold S, Spentzouris P, Spitz J, Stancari M, John JS, Strauss T, Sutton K, Sword-Fehlberg S, Szelc AM, Tagg N, Tang W, Terao K, Thorpe C, Totani D, Toups M, Tsai YT, Uchida MA, Usher T, Van De Pontseele W, Viren B, Weber M, Wei H, Williams Z, Wolbers S, Wongjirad T, Wospakrik M, Wresilo K, Wright N, Wu W, Yandel E, Yang T, Yarbrough G, Yates LE, Zeller GP, Zennamo J, and Zhang C

Abstract

We present a search for the decays of a neutral scalar boson produced by kaons decaying at rest, in the context of the Higgs portal model, using the MicroBooNE detector. We analyze data triggered in time with the Fermilab NuMI neutrino beam spill, with an exposure of 1.93×10^{20} protons on target. We look for monoenergetic scalars that come from the direction of the NuMI hadron absorber, at a distance of 100 m from the detector, and decay to electron-positron pairs. We observe one candidate event, with a standard model background prediction of 1.9±0.8. We set an upper limit on the scalar-Higgs mixing angle of θ<(3.3-4.6)×10^{-4} at the 95% confidence level for scalar boson masses in the range (100-200)  MeV/c^{2}. We exclude, at the 95% confidence level, the remaining model parameters required to explain the central value of a possible excess of K&#95;{L}^{0}→π^{0}νν[over ¯] decays reported by the KOTO collaboration. We also provide a model-independent limit on a new boson X produced in K→πX decays and decaying to e^{+}e^{-}.

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2021
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28. First Measurement of Differential Charged Current Quasielasticlike ν&#95;{μ}-Argon Scattering Cross Sections with the MicroBooNE Detector.

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Abratenko P, Alrashed M, An R, Anthony J, Asaadi J, Ashkenazi A, Balasubramanian S, Baller B, Barnes C, Barr G, Basque V, Bathe-Peters L, Benevides Rodrigues O, Berkman S, Bhanderi A, Bhat A, Bishai M, Blake A, Bolton T, Camilleri L, Caratelli D, Caro Terrazas I, Castillo Fernandez R, Cavanna F, Cerati G, Chen Y, Church E, Cianci D, Cohen EO, Conrad JM, Convery M, Cooper-Troendle L, Crespo-Anadón JI, Del Tutto M, Devitt D, Diurba R, Domine L, Dorrill R, Duffy K, Dytman S, Eberly B, Ereditato A, Escudero Sanchez L, Evans JJ, Fiorentini Aguirre GA, Fitzpatrick RS, Fleming BT, Foppiani N, Franco D, Furmanski AP, Garcia-Gamez D, Gardiner S, Gollapinni S, Goodwin O, Gramellini E, Green P, Greenlee H, Gu L, Gu W, Guenette R, Guzowski P, Hall E, Hamilton P, Hen O, Horton-Smith GA, Hourlier A, Huang EC, Itay R, James C, Jan de Vries J, Ji X, Jiang L, Jo JH, Johnson RA, Jwa YJ, Kamp N, Karagiorgi G, Ketchum W, Kirby B, Kirby M, Kobilarcik T, Kreslo I, LaZur R, Lepetic I, Li K, Li Y, Littlejohn BR, Lorca D, Louis WC, Luo X, Marchionni A, Marcocci S, Mariani C, Marsden D, Marshall J, Martin-Albo J, Martinez Caicedo DA, Mason K, Mastbaum A, McConkey N, Meddage V, Mettler T, Miller K, Mills J, Mistry K, Mogan A, Mohayai T, Moon J, Mooney M, Moor AF, Moore CD, Mousseau J, Murphy M, Naples D, Navrer-Agasson A, Neely RK, Nienaber P, Nowak J, Palamara O, Paolone V, Papadopoulou A, Papavassiliou V, Pate SF, Paudel A, Pavlovic Z, Piasetzky E, Ponce-Pinto ID, Porzio D, Prince S, Qian X, Raaf JL, Radeka V, Rafique A, Reggiani-Guzzo M, Ren L, Rochester L, Rodriguez Rondon J, Rogers HE, Rosenberg M, Ross-Lonergan M, Russell B, Scanavini G, Schmitz DW, Schukraft A, Shaevitz MH, Sharankova R, Sinclair J, Smith A, Snider EL, Soderberg M, Söldner-Rembold S, Soleti SR, Spentzouris P, Spitz J, Stancari M, John JS, Strauss T, Sutton K, Sword-Fehlberg S, Szelc AM, Tagg N, Tang W, Terao K, Thornton RT, Thorpe C, Toups M, Tsai YT, Tufanli S, Uchida MA, Usher T, Van De Pontseele W, Van de Water RG, Viren B, Weber M, Wei H, Williams Z, Wolbers S, Wongjirad T, Wospakrik M, Wu W, Yang T, Yarbrough G, Yates LE, Zeller GP, Zennamo J, and Zhang C

Abstract

We report on the first measurement of flux-integrated single differential cross sections for charged-current (CC) muon neutrino (ν&#95;{μ}) scattering on argon with a muon and a proton in the final state, ^{40}Ar (ν&#95;{μ},μp)X. The measurement was carried out using the Booster Neutrino Beam at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and the MicroBooNE liquid argon time projection chamber detector with an exposure of 4.59×10^{19} protons on target. Events are selected to enhance the contribution of CC quasielastic (CCQE) interactions. The data are reported in terms of a total cross section as well as single differential cross sections in final state muon and proton kinematics. We measure the integrated per-nucleus CCQE-like cross section (i.e., for interactions leading to a muon, one proton, and no pions above detection threshold) of (4.93±0.76&#95;{stat}±1.29&#95;{sys})×10^{-38}  cm^{2}, in good agreement with theoretical calculations. The single differential cross sections are also in overall good agreement with theoretical predictions, except at very forward muon scattering angles that correspond to low-momentum-transfer events.

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2020
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29. First Measurement of Inclusive Muon Neutrino Charged Current Differential Cross Sections on Argon at E&#95;{ν}∼0.8  GeV with the MicroBooNE Detector.

Author

Abratenko P, Adams C, Alrashed M, An R, Anthony J, Asaadi J, Ashkenazi A, Auger M, Balasubramanian S, Baller B, Barnes C, Barr G, Bass M, Bay F, Bhat A, Bhattacharya K, Bishai M, Blake A, Bolton T, Camilleri L, Caratelli D, Caro Terrazas I, Carr R, Castillo Fernandez R, Cavanna F, Cerati G, Chen Y, Church E, Cianci D, Cohen EO, Collin GH, Conrad JM, Convery M, Cooper-Troendle L, Crespo-Anadón JI, Del Tutto M, Devitt D, Diaz A, Domine L, Duffy K, Dytman S, Eberly B, Ereditato A, Escudero Sanchez L, Esquivel J, Evans JJ, Fitzpatrick RS, Fleming BT, Franco D, Furmanski AP, Garcia-Gamez D, Genty V, Goeldi D, Gollapinni S, Goodwin O, Gramellini E, Greenlee H, Grosso R, Gu L, Gu W, Guenette R, Guzowski P, Hackenburg A, Hamilton P, Hen O, Hill C, Horton-Smith GA, Hourlier A, Huang EC, James C, Jan de Vries J, Ji X, Jiang L, Johnson RA, Joshi J, Jostlein H, Jwa YJ, Karagiorgi G, Ketchum W, Kirby B, Kirby M, Kobilarcik T, Kreslo I, Lepetic I, Li Y, Lister A, Littlejohn BR, Lockwitz S, Lorca D, Louis WC, Luethi M, Lundberg B, Luo X, Marchionni A, Marcocci S, Mariani C, Marshall J, Martin-Albo J, Martinez Caicedo DA, Mason K, Mastbaum A, Meddage V, Mettler T, Mills J, Mistry K, Mogan A, Moon J, Mooney M, Moore CD, Mousseau J, Murphy M, Murrells R, Naples D, Nienaber P, Nowak J, Palamara O, Pandey V, Paolone V, Papadopoulou A, Papavassiliou V, Pate SF, Pavlovic Z, Piasetzky E, Porzio D, Pulliam G, Qian X, Raaf JL, Rafique A, Ren L, Rochester L, Rogers HE, Ross-Lonergan M, Rudolf von Rohr C, Russell B, Scanavini G, Schmitz DW, Schukraft A, Seligman W, Shaevitz MH, Sharankova R, Sinclair J, Smith A, Snider EL, Soderberg M, Söldner-Rembold S, Soleti SR, Spentzouris P, Spitz J, Stancari M, John JS, Strauss T, Sutton K, Sword-Fehlberg S, Szelc AM, Tagg N, Tang W, Terao K, Thomson M, Thornton RT, Toups M, Tsai YT, Tufanli S, Usher T, Van De Pontseele W, Van de Water RG, Viren B, Weber M, Wei H, Wickremasinghe DA, Wierman K, Williams Z, Wolbers S, Wongjirad T, Woodruff K, Wu W, Yang T, Yarbrough G, Yates LE, Zeller GP, Zennamo J, and Zhang C

Abstract

We report the first measurement of the double-differential and total muon neutrino charged current inclusive cross sections on argon at a mean neutrino energy of 0.8 GeV. Data were collected using the MicroBooNE liquid argon time projection chamber located in the Fermilab Booster neutrino beam and correspond to 1.6×10^{20} protons on target of exposure. The measured differential cross sections are presented as a function of muon momentum, using multiple Coulomb scattering as a momentum measurement technique, and the muon angle with respect to the beam direction. We compare the measured cross sections to multiple neutrino event generators and find better agreement with those containing more complete treatment of quasielastic scattering processes at low Q^{2}. The total flux integrated cross section is measured to be 0.693±0.010(stat)±0.165(syst)×10^{-38}  cm^{2}.

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2019
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